Malleny Garden

📌 Balerno, City of Edinburgh
★★★

With access down a narrow track and admission via honesty box, you may well be alone when you visit this hidden garden. Small but perfectly formed (though a little untidy according to some recent reports), the gardens feature 150 rose varieties and four 400-year old yew trees amidst a sea of bright colours. Malleny House completes the backdrop but takes away none of the secluded feel, all a few miles and a world away from Edinburgh.