Deck the halls with boughs of holly
As I write this, the late autumn rain is falling, and the wind is blowing hard but in the next few weeks we will reach the Winter Solstice – the turning point of the...
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Leopards, Toads and Scarlet Elf Cups
I have to admit that October is my favourite month of the year . . . The colour shades of autumn Once passed the Autumn equinox the encroaching winter darkness begins to make its...
Bannockburn House Summer Fayre 19 a Brilliant Success
What an amazing event, thank you to all our amazing volunteers who put in so much hard work to make sure this event could happen. Both Saturday and Sunday were very well attended, and...
Electric Excitement at Bannockburn House as Defibrillator Gifted
Volunteers and the board of the Bannockburn House Trust are delighted and extremely grateful to Greg Farquharson, Karen Farquharson, Danny Letford and Kevin Wilson who have raised enough funds by running the Stirling marathon...
May ‘Blossom Time’
One of the abiding joys of Spring is the fact that many deciduous trees waken up from their winter dormancy and burst into flower. They are festooned in fragile blossom and look absolutely stunning...
Easter Event opened the doors to Bannockburn House for 2019
Easter Event Bannockburn House celebrated the start of its popular spring and summer tours with an Easter Open Day for all the family on Sunday 14thApril 2019. Visitors enjoyed egg-painting, heritage treasure trails, storytelling,...
‘Flying ‘Peacocks’ and an ‘Albatross’
‘Peacock’ butterfly A hive of activity There is a lot of activity at the house just now because we have had various teams carrying out surveys. Ecology, topographical and geophysical surveys – basically attempting...
Our Lavish Victorian Garden Party
On the 4th and 5th of August our wonderful volunteers organised a superb and greatly successful weekend. Even the weather was beautiful to go with it. Hundreds of visitors came to explore the house and gardens...
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Walled Gardens, Soft Fruit & Orchards As most of our followers and supporters know Bannockburn House now belongs to the community. However, it is not just the house we own. We own the main house, outbuildings...
‘A’ is for Apple
And so, as the year turns onwards, we find ourselves harvesting apples and picking the first of the rich black brambles. Our apple trees this year are absolutely laden with fruit and we have...
