Summer Road Trip Drive On A90 To Visit The Garden Centre in Glendoick Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Summer travel video of a road trip drive with Scottish music, East on the A90 road from Perth to Dundee, to visit the Garden Centre in Glendoick, Perthshire. Glendoick is situated about 7 miles East of Perth and some 13 miles East of Dundee. It lies at the foot of the escarpment of the Sidlaw Hills above the Carse of Gowrie, just north east of Glen Carse. The soil is a light to medium loam, low in organic matter, well drained yet moist because of the underlying bed of clay. Woodland, planted along most of the escarpment, protects the gardens from the strong winds and its canopy also protects the plants from the effects of the hard frosts. Arable crops are grown in the flat lands of the Carse, known as the Garden of Scotland. Robert Craigie, born 1685, died 1760, bought part of Glendoick in 1726, from the Butter family who had owned it since the 13th century. Craigie was Lord Advocate during the Uprising of 1745. Later in 1754, he became Lord President of the Court of Session and was created Lord Glendoick. In 1773, his son David bought the bulk of the estate. The Craigie family continued to live at Glendoick until the later part of the 19th century, when the property was leased to Alfred W. Cox, who then bought it in 1900.

The surname Craigie was first found in Ayrshire, Gaelic: Siorrachd Inbhir Àir, formerly a county in the southwestern Strathclyde region of Scotland, that today makes up the Council Areas of South, East, and North Ayrshire. Craigie has been spelled Craigie, Craiggie, Craggy, Cragye, Criggie, Cragyn and many more.
John Craigie, aged 31, a labourer, arrived in South Australia in 1854 aboard the ship William Hammond; Helen Craigie arrived in Adelaide, Australia aboard the ship Rajasthan in 1838; John Craigie, a Scottish settler travelled from Glasgow aboard the ship Storm Cloud arriving in Otago, South Island, New Zealand on 30th July 1861; Alexander Craigie, aged 55, immigrated to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1916; George Craigie, aged 23, immigrated to the United States from Glasgow, in 1906; Alexander E. Craigie, aged 23, settled in America from Montrose, Scotland, in 1909.

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