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Arnot Tower was built in the early 1400s, and inhabited until approximately 1700, since when it has been a ruin. No trace remains of any original garden that might have been attached to the Tower, and the gardens built around the new house in the late 1800s were of no great horticultural significance. The last full-time gardener left in 1965, and when Helen and Ben Gray moved to Arnot Tower in 1996, the gardens had been neglected for decades. Hidden amongst the derelict fields of weeds and overgrown elder, sycamore and cherry laurel was a magnificent collection of 80-year old tree Rhododendrons, and some fine mature Japanese maples. In Spring, the woodland is carpeted with successive waves of snowdrops, daffodils and bluebells.

Before & After Photos are available to the right.