Snowdrops Festival - Saturday 21st February
2026-02-21 14:00 - 16:30 (Europe/London) | Kirklands Garden, Kirklands House, Bridge St, Saline, Fife, KY12 9TS, United Kingdom
Stroll around our two acre garden awash with a carpet of white snowdrops which have naturalised over the last 40 years. Many hellebores with flowers of green, white, pink, yellow and purple are dotted around; some double, some single, some spotted some plain. Take an additional walk over the burn to the more recent snowdrop planting in the woodland; we add a few thousand bulbs to this area every year. Teas, coffee and home made cake available.
Purchase one ticket per adult. Children accompanied by an an adult are free.

Snowdrops Festival - Sunday 22nd February
2026-02-22 14:00 - 16:30

Snowdrops Festival - Saturday 28th February
2026-02-28 14:00 - 16:30

Snowdrops Festival - Sunday 1st March
2026-03-01 14:00 - 16:30

Hellebore Festival - Saturday 21st March
2026-03-21 14:00 - 16:30
Charity open day in aid of Scotland’s Garden Scheme and West Fife Woodland Group. Many hellebores with flowers of green, white, pink, yellow and purple are dotted around; some double, some single, some spotted some plain. Take an additional walk over the burn to the more recent snowdrop planting in the woodland flowering later than in the garden; we add a few thousand bulbs to this area every year. Teas, coffee and home made cake available.
Purchase one ticket per adult. Children accompanied by an an adult are free.

Hellebore Festival - Sunday 22nd March
2026-03-22 14:00 - 16:30

Dragon Egg Hunt Monday 6th April 2026
2026-04-06 10:30 - 13:00
Now Monday due to high weather warning on Sunday. An Easter Egg hunt with a difference. Our friendly dragons that live in the garden have lost their eggs in the recent storm and need your help to find them. They know the eggs are somewhere in the garden and woodland. Enjoy the trail at Kirklands discovering clues with a reward for everyone at the end of the trail.
Refreshments available.

Garden Tour Spring bulbs. Sunday 19th April 2026
2026-04-19 14:30 - 16:30
In April the garden bursts into life with a carpet of spring flowers. Wood anemones, trilliums, fritillaries erythroniums and lots more with a backdrop of magnificent rhododendrons.
Stroll around the garden with Peter to see the large clumps of yellow anemone ranunculoides and the hidden treasures of erythronium hendersonii. There are hundreds of trillium grandiflora but you may miss the hidden flowers of trillium rugelei. The tour has a maximum of eight people so you can ask about every individual plant or just enjoy the spectacle.
The tour starts at 2.30 and takes about an hour followed by tea, coffee and home made cakes and a chance to buy some of the treasures you have seen around the garden at 10% discount.
If you would like to organise an exclusive tour, please contact Peter: 07557 094498 or peter@kirklandsgarden.co.uk This can be organised for any date or plant group but please avoid the busiest weekends.

Feed the Family Vegetable Growing 6.30 - 8.30 Wednesday 22nd April
2026-04-22 18:30 - 20:30
This is an introduction to vegetable growing to learn about the delights of growing vegetables and feeding the family with things from your own garden.
The workshops have a maximum of ten people and is aimed at beginners aged 12 to 90 that want to add to their skills growing things to eat. Run by Peter, with a lifetime’s experience but still learning. This is advice, demonstration and practical experience, hopefully leaving you with the knowledge and enthusiasm to get started at home. One ticket per participant.
The course is 2 hours long 6.30 – 8.30 pm on a Wednesday evening. You are welcome to arrive early and look around or stay after to enjoy the garden. We are here to answer your questions on the day or anytime after by email or message. You will take away seed and young plants to get you off to a quick start, though young plants choices depends on the weather and date of the course.

Feed the Family Vegetable Growing 10.30 - 12.30, Saturday, 25th April 2026
2026-04-25 10:30 - 12:30
This is an introduction to vegetable growing to learn about the delights of growing vegetables and feeding the family with things from your own garden.
The workshops have a maximum of ten people and is aimed at beginners aged from 12 to 90 that want to add to their skills growing things to eat. Run by Peter, with a lifetime’s experience but still learning. This is advice, demonstration and practical experience, hopefully leaving you with the knowledge and enthusiasm to get started at home. One ticket per participant.
The course is 2 hours long 10.30 to 12.30, Saturday morning. You are welcome to arrive early and look around or stay after to enjoy the garden. We are here to answer your questions on the day or anytime after by email or message. You will take away seed and young plants to get you off to a quick start, though young plants choices depends on the weather and date of the course.

Plant Propagation Wednesday 29th April 2026
2026-04-29 18:30 - 20:30
One of the wonders of nature that inspired me in my gardening life is how a seed grows into a tree; I discover this at 6 or 7 years old and the wonder has never left. Propagating plants has developed in an obsessive compulsive disorder that helps populate the garden.
In our plant propagation workshop we hope to stimulate a desire to multiply your stock of garden plants from seed, cuttings and division. We will dig up things from around the garden, depending on season, and pot up for you to take home for your garden. Expect to take home 4 or 5 pots, so bring a bag.
The workshops have a maximum of eight people so you can get practical experience not just a demonstration.
The course are 2 hours long 10.30-12.30 on a Saturday or 6.30 to 8.30 on Wednesday evenings. You are welcome to arrive early and look around or stay after to enjoy the garden. Refreshments provided. We are here to answer your questions on the day or anytime after by email or message.

Plant Propagation Saturday 2nd May 2026
2026-05-02 10:30 - 12:30

Feed the Family Vegetable Growing 6.30 - 8.30 Wednesday 13th May 2026
2026-05-13 18:30 - 20:30

Feed the Family Vegetable Growing 10.30 - 12.30, Saturday, 16th May 2026
2026-05-16 10:30 - 12:30

Garden Tour Meconopsis Saturday 30th May 2026
2026-05-30 14:30 - 16:30
We think the garden at Kirklands is at its best in the second half of May. Rhododendrons and azaleas are still flowering, spring bulb are still flowering, the garden has the spring freshness. The meconopsis at Kirklands are in full bloom.
Stroll around the garden with Peter to see the difference between fertile and infertile meconopsis, how Lingholm differs from its close relatives and the versions of Himalayan Blue Poppy in white or purple. Most of the meconopsis at Kirklands are propagated by division but many are raised from seed; we talk about the benefits of each method. The tour has a maximum of eight people so you can ask about every individual plant or just enjoy the spectacle. The talk is not just about meconopsis but exploring all the wonders of the garden.
The tour starts at 2.30 and takes about an hour followed by tea, coffee and home made cakes and a chance to buy some of the treasures you have seen around the garden at 10% discount.
If you would like to organise an exclusive tour, please contact Peter: 07557 094498 or peter@kirklandsgarden.co.uk This can be organised for any date or plant group but please avoid the busiest weekends.

Plant Propagation Wednesday 3rd June 2026
2026-06-03 10:30 - 12:30

Plant Propagation Saturday 6th June 2026
2026-06-06 10:30 - 12:30

Fife Women in Business Friday 12th June 2026
2026-06-12 18:00 - 20:30
Join us at Kirklands for a garden tour, refreshments and networking opportunity on a summer evening. This tour is for members of Fife Women in Business and their guests.
Stroll around the garden with Peter & Louisa to see our beautiful display of flowers, including the colourful primulas and meconopsis (Himalayan Blue Poppy), walled vegetable garden and woodland areas. Learn about the history of the garden, how it was created over the past 48 years and how we keep our little patch of paradise looking good.
Refreshments are included in your ticket price (tea, coffee and cakes) and will be served in the marquee with a chance to network with other members. We have plants for sale and gardeners to ask for advise on what to grow in your own garden.
Dogs on a lead are welcome.

Composting 13th June 2026
2026-06-13 10:30 - 12:30
The secret, if there is one, to good gardening is in the soil. Looking after your soil is vital. We are only beginning to understand the importance of all the billions of organisms that contribute to the health of plants and the structures in the ground that supply water and nutrients to our precious flowers or vegetables. In this short session we will give you the secrets to making good compost. The mix of materials to ensure your heap gets hot enough to produce the right results and the importance of aeration – mixing a second time to introduce more air to the process.
The workshops have a maximum of eight people so you can get practical experience not just a demonstration. Be prepared to get stuck into a compost heap!
The course is two hours, 10.30 to 12.30 on Saturday morning. Refreshments will be provided. You are welcome to arrive early and look around or stay after to enjoy the garden. We are here to answer your questions on the day or anytime after by email or message.

Garden Tour Candelabra Primulas Saturday 20th June 2026
2026-06-20 14:30 - 16:30
We have worked hard in recent years to diversify our woodland areas, removing 1,000s of bluebells and replanting them over the stream in the natural woods. We love bluebells, but the plan we to extend and improve the garden area. Our first chosen plant group was the candelabra primula. The moist, partially shaded borders have hundreds of primulas; from the tough self seeding Primula Japonica, the purple Beesiana, the orange Bulleyana to the more delicate Chungensis and Cockburniana, the tallest Pulverulenta and the scented Alpicola.
Stroll around the garden with Peter and discuss conditions, colour schemes, dividing and raising from seed. The tour has a maximum of eight people so you can ask about every individual plant or just enjoy the spectacle. The talk is not just about primulas but exploring all the wonders of the garden.
The tour starts at 2.30 and takes about an hour followed by tea, coffee and home made cakes and a chance to buy some of the treasures you have seen around the garden at 10% discount.
If you would like to organise an exclusive tour, please contact Peter: 07557 094498 or peter@kirklandsgarden.co.uk This can be organised for any date or plant group but please avoid the busiest weekends.
