by marketing | May 8, 2019 | Gardens, Latest News
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 and perhaps one of the most special of all these flowers is the Cherry...
by marketing | May 1, 2019 | Events, Latest News
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, face painting and home baking,...
by marketing | Feb 12, 2019 | Gardens
We have been pruning apple trees this week. Not just any old apple trees but the old, gnarled, overgrown, Victorian trees planted in the Walled Garden and at other places on the Estate. Mature trunks! It feels wrong to cut good healthy wood from living trees,...
by marketing | Jan 29, 2019 | Gardens
On New Year’s Day, 2019, I went up to the house to feed our stray cat and came home with three snowdrop flowers. Such a mild start to 2019, I’m sure you’ll agree, but snowdrops flowering on January 1st? Spring is definitely about two or three weeks ahead of this time...
by marketing | May 1, 2018 | History
Bannnockburn House Links Between 1787 and 1883, Bannockburn House was owned and occupied by various members of the Ramsay family of Barnton in Edinburgh. In 1787, William Ramsay, an Edinburgh merchant banker who also owned Barnton House in Edinburgh, Sauchie House and...