Collector’s EDITION

Tucked away on a hillside outside Perth is what an expert once described as “the finest two acres of private garden in the country”. A tranquil place of meandering woodland paths and sunny stretches of rock garden, lawn and pond, Branklyn holds more than 3,500 species from across the world, many of them brought back by intrepid plant hunters in the early years of the 20th century.

Now run by the National Trust for Scotland, Branklyn was the creation of Dorothy and John Renton, who bought a modest plot carved out of an old orchard and built their Arts and Crafts house here in 1922. John was a chartered land agent and helped lay out