苏格兰 卡罗赛德花园 Carolside Gardens – 玫瑰名园苏格兰最浪漫的花园之一

机构概况

卡罗赛德花园（Carolside Gardens）位于苏格兰边区（Scottish Borders）Earlston 镇北郊，坐落在 Leader 河的河湾处，被一片林木掩映的丘陵与前鹿园围绕。整座花园依托一座建于 1740 年的乔治亚庄园展开，是英国境内少数长期以私人经营方式面向公众开放的园艺空间之一，被列入苏格兰国家级「设计景观」（Designed Landscape）保护清单。

花园以古老的围墙玫瑰园闻名，被誉为「苏格兰最浪漫的花园之一」（The Daily Telegraph 评语）。除了 LinkedIn 网络（@carolsidegardens）的对外渠道外，庄园主家庭和园丁团队还在现场管理维护性、私人导览定制等多种小型服务。

历史沿革

这一带最早的房屋记录可追溯到 16 世纪，原为一座塔楼（tower house）；现存的乔治亚主体则建于 1740 年，传为建筑师 Sir Isaac Ware 据伦敦 Mayfair 切斯特菲尔德府邸草图所设计。1834 年《新苏格兰统计报告》曾把这里形容为「尘世劳苦之外的甜蜜庇护所」，这一描述至今仍然贴切。

围墙内的椭圆形花园已耕作超过两百年。20 世纪 80 年代后期，园主在园中大量地利用废旧的维多利亚和爱德华时代玫瑰园资料，逐步恢复了以 Gallica（法国蔷薇）为核心的历史玫瑰收藏。该收藏后被英国 Plant Heritage 列为 pre-1900 Gallica 国家收藏，亦被法国国家园艺学会列入《欧洲玫瑰园指南》。

花园格局与特色

整座花园最引人注目的部分是一条约两百米长的小径，串联起椭圆形围墙花园、玫瑰花园、秘密花园（Secret Garden）、冬日花园（Winter Garden）、香草花园（Herb Garden）、隐藏花园（Hidden Garden）等多个独立「房间」。每一处都按不同的色彩主题栽植：香草园以黄、白玫瑰搭配浅绿色香叶；秘密园以银色和浅粉色为主调；隐藏园则只种白玫瑰、紫罗兰，并以淡粉玫瑰自苹果树上垂落。

在植物配置上，花园以草本植物为主打：晚春的鸢尾、初夏的芍药与羽扇豆、初夏末的玫瑰与福禄考，次第接替，构成柔软的色彩层次。玫瑰品种涵盖 Gallica、Moss、Alba、Damask、Centifolia、Bourbon、Floribunda 与 Tea 八大类；其中以国家收藏级别的 pre-1900 Gallica 最为珍稀。

现状与运营

2026 年度的对外开放时间为 5 月 1 日至 10 月 1 日，每日 11:00–17:00。门票：成人 8 英镑，16 岁以下儿童免费；Historic Houses 会员免费入场，BBC Gardeners’ World 杂志 2-for-1 持卡人同样适用。

为控制客流、保护脆弱的草本层，花园同时接受私人团体预约（含咖啡茶歇、午餐导览等选项）；但宠物犬只可在进入售票点之前的林地区域内牵行，因为前园生活着一些鹿群。园区由园主家庭与小型园丁团队共同维护，售票与对外事务集中在 6 月末至 7 月初玫瑰盛花期。

关联与延伸

卡罗赛德花园是英国 Plant Heritage 名录中 Gallica 国家收藏的唯一登记地，园内多个品种也曾被《英国园丁权益》、《Plinth 杂志》等出版物转载。它与同处 Scottish Borders 的 Floors Castle、Manderston House 等历史庄园一样，是英国东南部「花园旅游联合体」中的常驻站点。

Overview

Carolside Gardens sits in the Scottish Borders, just north of Earlston, in a bend of the River Leader and within a former designed landscape that includes an 18th-century Georgian mansion. The garden has been open to the public in summer for over two decades and is best known for its collection of historic roses.

The estate is also a working household — its small gardener staff and the owner’s family look after daily visits, group tours, and the rose-and-marbled retail line. An Instagram account (@carolsidegardens) keeps followers posted through the flowering season.

History

A house has stood on the Carolside site since the 1500s, originally as a tower house; the present Georgian mansion dates from 1740 and is attributed to Sir Isaac Ware’s design for Chesterfield House, Mayfair. By 1834, the New Statistical Account of Scotland was already describing the spot as a “sweet and secure asylum from the toils and troubles of this world,” a description still quoted today.

The oval walled garden has been cultivated for over 200 years. From the late 1980s onward, the owners set about restoring the Edwardian rose beds and assembling what has since become the UK Plant Heritage National Collection of pre-1900 Gallica Roses, also listed in the Guide to the Rose Gardens of Europe by the French National Society of Horticulture.

Garden Layout and Features

A roughly 200-metre walk runs through a sequence of garden rooms: the oval walled garden, the Rose Garden, the Secret Garden, the Winter Garden, the Herb Garden, and the Hidden Garden. Each room is planted in its own colour scheme — yellow and white with fresh greens in the herb garden, silver and pale pink in the secret garden, white roses with violets in the hidden garden — with soft, billowing herbaceous planting throughout.

The herbaceous borders carry the main flowering calendar: irises in late May, peonies and lupins in June, then roses and phlox from early July. The rose collection covers Gallica, Moss, Alba, Damask, Centifolia, Bourbon, Floribunda and Tea types, anchored by the rare pre-1900 Gallica national collection.

Status and Operations

For 2026, the garden is open 1 May – 1 October, daily, 11:00–17:00. Admission is £8 for adults, free for children under 16, and free for Historic Houses members; BBC Gardeners’ World 2-for-1 cardholders also apply.

Private group tours with refreshments or a sandwich lunch can be booked by email. Dogs are welcome on a lead in the park area before the entrance hut (livestock graze there), but are not admitted into the garden itself. Day-to-day care is handled by a small on-site team, with the public-facing effort concentrated around the late-June / early-July rose peak.

Related

Carolside is the only garden currently holding the National Collection of pre-1900 Gallica Roses under the UK Plant Heritage scheme, and its collection has featured in titles such as Scotland for Gardeners and The Times. Within the wider Scottish Borders garden trail, it sits alongside country-house gardens such as Floors Castle and Manderston, and is a regular stop on Scottish garden tour circuits.

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