Broadwoodside Garden
Gifford Haddington East Lothian EH41 4JQ
If Arcadia possessed a country house, surely this would be it.’
Country Life, 2023
Broadwoodside is a garden in Lowland Scotland. The buildings of a former farm steading, dating from the seventeenth century to the present day, surround two sheltered courtyards. Around the outside of these, the garden extends into the surrounding farmland and woods on an ambitious scale, with many areas of planting, a pond, temple and other incidents in the landscape.
People very often talk of starting a new garden with a blank canvas. Broadwoodside was more like painting by numbers: the layout was determined by the footprint of the existing buildings and the many old walls that surround them. The garden just needed ‘colouring-in’.