Qualla: Drummond Castle https://qualla.com/drummond-castle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/0/drummond-castle-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Drummond Castle https://qualla.com/drummond-castle Drummond Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/drummond-castle/ Photo credit Eusebius, CC BY 3.0. When Dior chose Drummond Castle for its Cruise 2025 show -- the fashion house's first Scottish catwalk in nearly 70 years -- creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri was tapping into something the Drummond family understood five centuries ago: the power of spectacle set against raw landscape. The castle rises from a spine of volcanic basalt that cuts across Perthshire like a geological blade, its terraced gardens cascading down the southern slope in an intricate geometry of box hedges, topiary, and gravel paths that Historic Environment Scotland has called "the best example of formal terraced gardens in Scotland."

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/0/drummond-castle-wp/gfj0-drummond-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Drummond Castle: A Ridge of Deep Time https://qualla.com/drummond-castle/ Photo credit HARTLEPOOLMARINA2014, CC BY-SA 4.0. The rock beneath Drummond Castle tells a story that dwarfs the human one above. The ridge is a dyke of tholeiitic basalt, part of a late Carboniferous swarm intruded roughly 300 million years ago into older Devonian sandstone. This same geological feature can be traced east to Pe...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/0/drummond-castle-wp/gfj0-drummond-castle-a-ridge-of-deep-time.mp3 0:06 2 full Drummond Castle: Clan and Crown https://qualla.com/drummond-castle/ Photo credit Benutzer:Brunswyk, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Drummond family held these lands from the 14th century, and their rise mirrored Scotland's own shifting fortunes. The 4th Lord Drummond was created Earl of Perth in 1605, cementing the family's place among Scotland's aristocracy. His descendant, the 2nd Earl, laid out the fir...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/0/drummond-castle-wp/gfj0-drummond-castle-clan-and-crown.mp3 0:06 3 full Drummond Castle: Gardens Fit for a Queen https://qualla.com/drummond-castle/ Photo credit Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0. The gardens visitors see today took shape in the 1830s, when Clementina Drummond and her husband Peter Robert Willoughby inherited the estate and commissioned Lewis Kennedy to redesign the grounds. Kennedy's layout amplified the drama of the site, using the steep natural contours...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/j/0/drummond-castle-wp/gfj0-drummond-castle-gardens-fit-for-a-queen.mp3 0:06 4 full Drummond Castle: Where Geology Meets Grandeur https://qualla.com/drummond-castle/ Photo credit Tom Parnell, CC BY-SA 4.0. From the air, Drummond Castle's position on its narrow basalt ridge is unmistakable -- the gardens laid out in their cross-shaped parterre pattern, the keep and gatehouse clustered at the ridge's high point, and the long access road following the spine eastward toward Crieff. The...

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