Pitmedden Gardens

After handing in our final piece of coursework last week, we felt like we deserved a day off before the revision for finals started. When we opened the curtains on Friday to discover glorious sunshine, we thought we'd take a drive to Pitmedden Gardens, just North of Aberdeen.

A glorious expanse of beautifully manicured grass and hedges greets you as you pass through the gates, and it's easy to see why these Oystercatchers chose to set up shop and nest in the gardens. Who wouldn't want to nest in the birdy equivalent of the Ritz?

Unfortunately that meant we couldn't get too close to the flowering beds, but I managed to find a few wall creepers to test out the close up capabilities of my new camera on. Thus far, I'm pretty impressed! When I've given it a proper work out I'll pop up a full post on it I think.

The gardens are accompanied by the original outbuildings and cottages, which you can still have a good nose around today. You can take your time, they're full to the brim of gardening and farming machinery, personal belongings and home furnishings, and it's a lovely way to while away an afternoon.

Taking full advantage of the sunshine, we made friends with some bunnies and tucked into a picnic - the first picnic of the year! We even managed to remember to take a photograph of ourselves, a true miracle.

How have you been enjoying the sunshine? I'm writing this post from the library in a little revision break, and I'd love to live vicariously through you!

Pitmedden Gardens are open 10 - 5:30pm daily, May - September. You can find more information here.