Branklyn Garden An open garden in Perth

This is where I fell in love with Meconopsis - an amazing Himalayan treasure trove of plants collected by the late owners - now National Trust for Scotland.

This is a garden full of contradictions.
Close to the Tay, it is very easy to drive past this garden with no awareness of what is there.
Walk into it and you have no idea that one of Scotland's busiest roads is only a suicidal lurch away.
But who would want to waste their life on suicide here?
From a spectacular scramble of alpinic falls to the comforting acid depths, and everything in between, this is a garden worth saving. And its beauty does more than any amount of expensive hours of therapy to tell you that life is worth saving and living too. Miss visiting this garden at your peril!!!!

A wonderful example of an alpine garden, we visit regularly