Aberdeen gardens re-open, following £28m upgrade

ARGUABLY Aberdeen’s most significant public gardens have re-opened, following an upgrade totalling £28.3m.

Union Gardens has been regenerated to include, among other things, three new pavilions designed to be cafes, restaurants or arts and cultural spaces and also 122,000 new plants – not least 78,000 bulbs and 639m of hedge.

Says an announcement from the local authority, here: “The gardens also include extensive seating, new lighting features, refurbishment of the historic arches and Victorian toilets, a new public toilet, new specially-commissioned artworks, new native planting, a net gain in trees, and reinstatement of a planted city crest.

“It also has a new water feature, the three statues (William Wallace, Rabbie Burns, and Edward VII) have been cleaned, and the ‘grand staircase’ down to the lower gardens has been reinstated.”

Read more, here.

Picture credit: Aberdeen City Council

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