Another first for me this week was a visit to the beautiful Blairtummock House in Easterhouse. Monday’s Mid-Week group headed to the walled garden to tackle a year’s worth of weeds.
Blairtummock House is a country house and includes an 18th century block, with 19th century and Edwardian additions.
The walled garden has an 18th century pedimented garden pavilion which was originally a porch from a house in Glasgow’s Queen Street.
When first built, Blairtummock was located in a rural setting with grounds extending down towards the Monkland Canal. After the second World War, Glasgow Corporation acquired Blairtummock and its 103 acres by compulsory purchase. By the 1960’s, the house was surrounded by local authority housing.
Blairtummock House was listed as a Category B structure in 1990 by Historic Scotland. As well as the main building, the listing specifically mentions the walled garden and garden pavilion.
You can find out more about Blairtummock House by going to:
www.blairtummockhouse.org.uk
It was a really satisfying day pulling out Chickweed, Rosebay Willow Herb and an assortment of other weeds (or should I say plants growing in the wrong place!) that had taken over the beds across the whole site
After a lot of digging and pulling out a mountain of this:
We ended up with this:
The Group were heading back the next day to complete the job – sorted!