Greenbank Garden
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Greenbank Garden is a National Trust for Scotland property in Clarkston, East Renfrewshire.
It is a two and a half acre walled garden consisting of over 3,000 species of trees and plants and is surrounded by woodland and shrubberies. The garden itself is adjoined to a Georgian town house built for the Glasgow merchant Robert Allason in 1764. It was gifted to the Trust in 1976.
Greenbank is an educational garden to inspire and educate visitors on what and how to grow a very wide range of more unusual plants many of which are available for sale. The garden is divided into over 30 domestic-sized themed gardens including seasons, colours and senses. In addition there is a woodland walk around the perimeter of the garden walls.
The ground floor of Greenbank House (study, dining room and sitting room) is open at certain times during the summer.
During the summer of 2007 Greenbank was one of the properties participating in the joint Scottish Government-National Trust for Scotland commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade. As with many similar properties the house had been built on the profits of the tea industry, which had used slave labour.
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