| About Capenoch Market Gardens... Capenoch Market Gardens are set in the idylic surrounds of a Victorian era walled garden. We pride ourselves on selling our wide range of nursery shrubs, bedding plants and fruit trees at growers prices, supplying the public as well as wholesale and landscape gardeners. Our prices and service are so great that people travel to us from as far afield as Glasgow! To find out more about the different ranges of plants available from us, please click here.  As
well as the shrubs and plants that you might expect, we sell growing
herbs for the kitchen and fruit trees so that you can grow your own
fruit in your garden. We also provide services such as basket and
tub filling for landscape gardeners and hobbyists and are suppliers
of "Scottish Gardener" peats and composts. To find out more
about our tub planting services, peats and composts, please click
here. We
have also become known for our fruits and berries which are grown
in the garden and available seasonally. The photograph to the right
shows the lines of strawberry plants; also grown are raspberries and
other summer fruits. To find out more about our fruits, please click
here. Find Us... The map below shows how we can be found coming south down the A76 from Sanquar and Edinburgh, or coming north from Dumfries and Carlisle. Turn off at Thornhill (follow the signs to Penpont). Drive through Penpont, cross the bridge over the Scaur Water, and the turnoff to Capenoch Market Gardens is signposted just after the bridge. We look forward to seeing you! 
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History... The picture below shows the house in the grounds of the garden where proprietor Morag lives. The glasshouses to the right of the picture date back to 1902 and are still in use a century on. At one time the walled garden was tended to by a team of thirteen gardeners, working hard to provide food and herbs for the table of Capenoch Manor, where the Gladstone family still lives. 
A century ago, the walled kitchen garden was an essential part of the estates of large country houses. The walls protected the plants in the garden from the unwanted attentions of pests such as rabbits and also protected the plants from extremes in heat, cold and wind. This allowed a much greater variety of plants to be grown. In the days before supermarkets and global food distribution, this provided a much needed variety to the diets of the families and staff of the country houses. The picture below shows the scale of the glass houses. In the background are the trees that line the Scaur, the river that flows through the grounds of Capenoch Market Gardens. In the foreground you can see the caned area where delicious raspberries are grown. 
Just to the left of the glasshouses you can see the top of the wall that runs around the perimeter of the garden. This wall still protects the plants, herbs and flowers growing in the garden from the intemperate Scottish weather, and hungry rabbits! |
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