Explorers' Garden
12 minute walk from Pitlochry station · Stirling, Central and Fife · Free entry
Explorers' Garden is a woodland garden and performance space managed by Pitlochry Festival Theatre. It was built in the late 1990s through a partnership with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The design follows the Theatricum Botanicum concept and commemorates plant hunters who collected plant species from across the globe.
Visitors can view specific plant life and attend art performances within the grounds. The woodland habitat features a pagoda, a pavilion, and an amphitheatre. Notable plant varieties include rare meconopsis that bloom in May and the Himalayan blue Poppy GSG Explorers, which is a variety specific to this site. The gardens are also used for private events and weddings.
Access to the gardens is available seasonally from April to October. Last entry is permitted at 4pm. Explorers' Garden is located within the Pitlochry Festival Theatre campus.
Visitor information
- Place type
- Garden
- Good for
- Gardens, Theatre & performance, Trees & woodlands
- Characteristics
- 20th-century, Designed landscape, Open-air, Woodland
- Admission
- Free
- Opening
- Seasonal opening
- Region
- Stirling, Central and Fife
Stations within walking distance
- Pitlochry station — 12 min walk, 1.0 km
Other places near Pitlochry
- Bealach Route and Killiecrankie, Pitlochry — 1 min walk from the station
- Loch Faskally and the salmon ladder, Pitlochry — 3 min walk from the station
- Pitlochry to Blair Atholl — 3 min walk from the station
- Clunie walk, Pitlochry — 3 min walk from the station
- Pitlochry Dam Visitor Centre — 5 min walk from the station
- Black Spout and Edradour, Pitlochry — 5 min walk from the station