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Fletcher’s Cottage Spa at Archerfield House The walled garden at Fletcher’s Cottage Spa was created ten years ago from an unused piece of scrubland. It now houses two cosy, private single-occupancy bath huts complete with log burners. Each has its own small private patio and the front area of the garden, split by a central path banked by heather and juniper, now leads to a large central pergola covered with climbing roses, clematis and grape vines. “As soon as the weather is nice guests can’t wait to get outside. Lots go for walks to the meadow, or to the bath huts, or the rest just relax outside at the tables, it’s become a real extension of our offer,” says brand guardian Siân Parry Jones. The garden was created so guests could look out on nature and to bring life and light into the spa. In the summer, yurts are set up where yoga, Reiki and gong sessions take place. “I’m all about having every single window looking out onto nature,” says Parry Jones, “so we have lavender beds planted outside all the treatment rooms, climbing roses and even palm trees – we never thought they would survive in Scotland but they have. It’s not a formal garden, it has grown into what it wanted to be. I would love to put some more huts out in our wildflower meadow.”
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