Garden Lovers Invited to Vote in UK First at Scone Palace Garden Fair
Gardening enthusiasts are invited to cast their votes in the eagerly anticipated People’s Choice Award as part of the Scottish Garden Design Competition, held during the Scone Palace Garden Fair.
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14th May 2025
Top Five Must Do Activities at Scone Palace Garden Fair
The Scone Palace team is now counting the days to our annual celebration of all things horticultural. The must-see gardening event this summer.
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13th May 2025
Dobbies Garden Centres Joins the Scone Palace Garden Fair
We are proud to announce Dobbies Garden Centres as the main sponsor for this year’s Scone Palace Garden Fair, which runs from 30 to 31 May.
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12th May 2025
The Crowning Place of Scottish Kings
On arrival at the palace, many visitors ask how Scone became the Crowning Place of Scottish Kings.
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04th May 2023
The Palace Awaits
For those who work at Scone Palace, the first day of a new season feels like the start of a new school term. The following seven months lay ahead, waiting for the staff to leave their print on them, like pristine exercise books waiting to be filled with stories.
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29th March 2023
Snowdrop Festival
February is a fickle month. It gives with one hand and snatches back with another. We wait patiently for it to arrive throughout the inconspicuous days of January, hoping that when it does, it will bring with it discernible signs of spring.
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26th January 2023
Georgina Ballantine’s Giant Catch
What would you do, if for just one day only, you were given an extra hour? Would you put that hour to good use?
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14th October 2022
Man's Best Friend
We have all heard the phrase “a dog is man’s best friend’. But do you know where the expression came from? It was first used by King Frederick II of Prussia before his death in 1786. It is he who said, “the only, absolute and best friend a man has, in this selfish world, the only one that will not betray or deny him, is his dog”.
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01st September 2022
British Cut Flowers Week & The Garden Fair
‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.’ This iconic opening line in Charles Dickens’ novel A Tale of Two Cities has been interpreted many ways since the Victorian writer put pen to paper.
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05th July 2022
