Threave Garden & Nature Reserve NTS

Threave Garden & Nature Reserve NTS Threave is the perfect place for a family day out, there’s so much to see and do.

For winter opening times, please check our website or phone for details 01556 502575

Forget the standard Sunday roast—give Dad a legendary lunch this Father’s Day weekend. 🍔✨​We’re serving up a seriously d...
16/06/2026

Forget the standard Sunday roast—give Dad a legendary lunch this Father’s Day weekend. 🍔✨

​We’re serving up a seriously delicious special at Threave Café on Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st June, crafted to perfection and guaranteed to hit the spot.

​The Father's Day Special:

​The Main Event: Crispy buttermilk chicken fillet served in a brioche bun, topped with bacon, roasted red pepper, fresh leaves, and a kick of Thai honey mayo.

​The Sides: Served with a side of golden chips and our homemade coleslaw.

£11.95 per person.

​Booking Information:

​Spaces fill up fast for Father's Day weekend, so don't miss out!

​📧 How to book: Drop us an email at [email protected] to secure your table.

​Treat him to great food and views at Threave this weekend. We can’t wait to welcome you!

⭐ Alan Gordon's Military Service ⭐Join us for an insightful presentation into Alan Gordon's Military service and how he ...
15/06/2026

⭐ Alan Gordon's Military Service ⭐

Join us for an insightful presentation into Alan Gordon's Military service and how he won his medals.

Alan Gordon bequeathed the Threave estate to The National Trust for Scotland, be sure to book your place on what will no doubt be a wonderful talk and a unique chance to see Alan's medals.

Tickets can be purchased from Eventbrite. Please see image for all details.

⭐🌻🌼🌱🌿⭐🤩🌳🌞

Cornus kousa is looking absolutely delightful with its inflorescences just now. The white petal like structures are actu...
15/06/2026

Cornus kousa is looking absolutely delightful with its inflorescences just now.

The white petal like structures are actually modified leaves, with the small flowers in the centre.

There are a few located around the garden, the one pictured is at the front of the rock garden in all its splendour.

14/06/2026

Small tree, big calm. 🌳

Bonsai are living sculptures, shaped over time with patience and precision.
From ancient-looking trunks to miniature masterpieces, each one tells a story.
Which bonsai would you take home?
📍 New range now at Threave Plant Centre.

🌿 Dead Wood, Living Wildlife 🪵🐞🐦As part of the ongoing landscape restoration work at Threave Nature Reserve, we’re creat...
12/06/2026

🌿 Dead Wood, Living Wildlife 🪵🐞🐦

As part of the ongoing landscape restoration work at Threave Nature Reserve, we’re creating and retaining a variety of dead wood habitats across the site, including standing dead wood, log piles and brash piles.

While dead wood may appear lifeless, it plays a vital role in supporting biodiversity. These habitats provide food, shelter and breeding sites for countless insects, fungi and other invertebrates, which in turn support birds, mammals and other wildlife.

Standing dead trees can offer valuable nesting and roosting opportunities for birds and bats, while log and brash piles create safe refuges for insects, amphibians and small mammals. By incorporating dead wood habitats within hedgerows and wildlife corridors, we are strengthening habitat connectivity across the reserve, helping species move through the landscape more easily.

These natural features are an important part of creating a healthier, more resilient ecosystem and demonstrate how habitat restoration can benefit wildlife at every level. 🍄🍄‍🟫🐛🐞🦟🪲🐜🕷️🪶🪺🦔

Visitor Services Assistant - Retail & Admissions Closing date: 21 June 202612 Hours Per WeekFixed-Term Until August 2026...
12/06/2026

Visitor Services Assistant - Retail & Admissions
Closing date: 21 June 2026

12 Hours Per Week
Fixed-Term Until August 2026
£27,976 pro-rata, per annum

We are looking for a new team member who can help us maximise our visitors’ enjoyment of Threave Garden & Nature Reserve by maintaining excellent
standards of service for visitors, and maximising income through membership sales and the retail offer. Ideal candidates will also help to ensure the smooth and safe operations in retail and admission and making Threave Gardens & Nature Reserve the best possible place to visit and work.

To apply complete an application form available here
https://www.nts.org.uk/volunteering-jobs/job-search/south-west
Alternatively send us a CV to [email protected] stating clearly how your skills will help you in this role

The summer bedding is planted. After a few weeks of debating when we would plant the bedding, it finally got planted yes...
11/06/2026

The summer bedding is planted.

After a few weeks of debating when we would plant the bedding, it finally got planted yesterday with a big team of staff, trainees and volunteers.

The plants arrive as plugs, and get potted in a few hours, by a big group and then left to grow on in the back up glasshouse being watered and fed to keep them healthy.

This years plants include:
Matthiola (stocks) ‘Hot Cakes Mix’
Ageratum ‘Aloha Blue’
Bacopa ‘Megacopa Blue’
Bidens ‘Sixbi Sun’
Nemesia ‘Lady Rose’
Osteospermum ‘Akila Hawaii Sunset’
Lantana ‘Shamrock Peach’
Canna Tropicanna Gold ‘Mactro’

Over the next few weeks they will bulk up and fill the spaces and should look lovely.

Meet the mini-beasts 😃- first in our series, pollinators! 🪰 When we think of pollinators we picture bees and butterflies...
10/06/2026

Meet the mini-beasts 😃- first in our series, pollinators! 🪰 When we think of pollinators we picture bees and butterflies, but there are a myraid of other important insect pollinators, from beetles to hoverflies.

Threave Nature Reserve volunteer Brian Jones has captured some in these stunning photographs, part of his documentation of invertebrates across the Threave Landscape Restoration Project. Hoverflies like this buttercup blacklet (cheilosia albitarsis) and chequered hoverfly (melanostoma scalare) are harmless bee imitators, the very short-lived St. Marks fly (bibio marci), a vital pollinator in early spring, and dance flies like the empis tessellata and dark-kneed dance fly (empis opaca).

Pollinating an estimated £690 million of crops in the UK every year, we literally would not survive long without them - wild pollinators are also a vital part of the food chain, sustaining the birds and mammals we love. Over 97% of wildflower-rich grassland has been lost here since the end of the first world war, leading to a serious decline, and an urgent need to protect and restore healthy diverse grassland as well as woodland and wetland ecosystems.

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National Trust For Scotland: Threave Garden
Castle Douglas
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