The garden is planted on either side of swiftly flowing burn spanned by two bridges
Jute, made from fibres imported from India and turned into rope, sacks and carpet lining, made the 19th-century Cox family fortune, with manufacturing taking place at a factory in Dundee. My great-grandfather Alfred Cox, who bought Glendoick House in 1899, expected his only son Euan to follow him into the family jute business – but Euan had other ideas. After graduating from Cambridge University, he joined London’s literary set and worked for writers Edmund Gosse and John Buchan, spending his weekends with the Bloomsbury Group.
Later, while working at the War Office, Euan met Edwardian garden writer and plant hunter Reginald
