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apply successfully for access, as a way of bringing in income to the garden. The gardens are then usually managed by Commissioners – around eight for each garden. The Commissioners are elected by the owners, and have responsibility for sourcing gardeners, and ensuring the gardens are well maintained. A Clerk of the gardens usually handles membership applications and entitlement. The Clerk will be a member of a local
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Each garden has a different management and ownership structure. Ownership is often by private shareholders or a joint ownership by the local residents. For example, East Queen Street Gardens are owned by shareholders who have explicitly bought a share in the land, and keys are rented to those who
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Each garden has different rules concerning criteria for membership and access, with some permitting only those owning or renting surrounding properties a key, while others welcome applications from residents in other parts of the City of Edinburgh. Some gardens are regularly opened to the public,
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Some of the gardens, such as Bellevue Crescent Gardens and Gayfield Square Gardens, are now owned and managed by
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Most of the gardens were established contemporaneously to the New Town, and north West End of Edinburgh.
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are a collection of around 30 mostly private gardens and parks within the Edinburgh
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firm, with their contact details often on plaques on the gates to the gardens.
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Index

New Town
Conservation Area
West End

Hopetoun Crescent Gardens
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Robert Louis Stevenson's
Treasure Island
St Andrew Square
Doors Open Days
solicitors
City of Edinburgh Council


Bellevue Crescent Gardens
Charlotte Square Gardens
Claremont Crescent Gardens
Dean Gardens
Douglas Crescent Gardens
Drummond Place Garden
Drumsheugh Gardens
East Circus Place Garden
Eglinton Crescent and Glencairn Crescent Gardens
Gayfield Square Gardens
Grosvenor Crescent and Lansdowne Crescent Gardens
Hillside Crescent Gardens
Hopetoun Crescent Gardens
India Street Gardens
Learmonth Gardens
London Road Gardens

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