The Hercules garden

Today I visited the grounds of Blair castle in Scotland near Pitlochry, Cairngorms national park and it was amazing! One of the most amazing parts was one of the gardens called the Hercules garden!

My guess for the reason of its name is probably because of the large statue of Hercules overlooking the garden!
I was so amazed by all the fruit trees and the big pond! It was all so beautiful!
It was quite big and i wanted to find out exactly how big it is and it turned out to be about nine acres! (If you don't know how big an acre is its about 4000 m² which is roughly 200 x 200m) There is a very high wall built around the garden and two large gates the enter and exit. One of my favourite parts of the garden is the Chinese bridge! (shown below)

Chinese bridge

Its not just the garden that is named after Hercules, the long path (which is a beautiful walk filled with lovely trees) that leads to the garden is also named after Hercules.

The most incredible part of Blair castle (to me at least) is Diana's grove. It has so many trees and how beautiful the scenery was is beyond words! The biggest tree in Diana's grove is a giant redwood planted from one of the seeds from one of the biggest trees in the world the Grizzly giant. the mount it is planted on (mount strange) was recreated in 1884 to show the volume of the Grizzly giant. This amazing tree is about 1900 to 2400 years old and is 64 metres high and 34,005 cubic feet!

We didn't do the tour but did pop our heads into the entrance hall and there were quite a couple of stuffed stags and we decided to just stay outside.

If you happen to be near and have some time on your hands definitely have a look because it is so amazing!