Christmas 2025

Glendoick Christmas 2025 is Now Open

In 2024 and 2023... Glendoick won best Garden Centre Christmas displays in Scotland... and this year we think our team have done even better this year!.
Valerie, Wendy, Barry, Johnny, John, Claire, Jim and our pricing team, have been working away behind screens for 2 months... and it is well worth the wait...

Santa at Glendoick

Slots from 29th November every sdaturday and Sunday 10.30am – 1pm and 2 – 4.30pm

£7.50 per child. Santa Bookings must be made via our website – all proceeds to our chosen charity for 2025

CHAS: Children’s Hospices across Scotland (CHAS). CHAS is Scotland’s only hospice service for babies, children and young people with a life shortening condition. We support our local (Kinross) hospice.

Christmas Themes 2025

Shop our ‘ Dance of the faeries’ themes and adorn your home with enchanted treasures and stunning decor.
Post your dreams on the Ancient Wishing tree, and catch some magical moments cos You’re a Star!
Visit our Alpine World with family fun and Christmas favourites.
Follow the Polar bear Explorers Map past Inuk and the Wusky Camp, through the ice tunnel to see the Bears ride the Polar Explorers.
Post your letters at the Elves Mail room and build your own world with our range of Alpine Villages
And lets not forget our Dancing Gnomes whoi have opened their own Dance Acadamy.this year.
Keep your eye out for our special Christmas Deals and this year’s new exclusive prices on some special lines just for our reward card customers.

Christmas Faerie Ball

It’s a special time of Year for all of us to Gather and you are Invited to Join us at Glendoick for the Christmas Faerie Ball.

Meet our Christmas Faerie themes, post your dreams on the Ancient Wishing tree, adorn your home with enchanted treasures and catch some magical moments cos You’re a Star! Eve - the Faerie of Christmas Night, of Love and secrets.

Colour wash your home in shades of red and pearl for an on trend luxe inspired interior that just a little on the dark side...its the night before Christmas after all. Hope - the Faerie of Christmas Dawn of Joy and Wishes.

The first light, dappled in blush and frosted eucalyptus the twinkling magic of Christmas wings unfolds and rainbows sparkle through the cobwebs. Awaken to the nature of Christmas and capture it in your home. Flora & Fauna - the Faerie twins of Christmas Day, of Life and Friendship.

Grab a basket and forage our Christmas foliage, stems, berries, creatures and baubles for a timeless Christmas for all the family.

The Alpine Bear Kingdom

The Year is 2525, 500 years in the future. The Ice has Returned to the Icy Mountain World and a long magical Winter descends.

Every 100 Years the 2 Moons above the Castle of Polaris Collide sending sparks of Ice and Crystal falling to Earth’s Surface as Snow. On this special Night, Christmas Eve, A new Royal Bear is born in the Stars.

This year at Glendoick the Polar Bear Dynasty celebrates the Birth of a New Prince. Join our Polar Expedition for a World full of Sparkle and Awe.

Follow the folk to the Alpine Village for festive charm and frolick with fun in our Red White Green and blue decorations. Inuk and her Wusky rest at the Arctic camp with their furry friends. Trail through the ice to see the Bears parade on the Polar Train in the Land of Snow and Magic and visit the Elves Mail room as they work hard for Santa for the night ahead.

Everything you want for Christmas and more!

Collection of silhouettes of a fairy. Isolated on white. Cute fairy flying

From The Courier October 2025

Glendoick Christmas display that’s ‘better than Harrods’

Santa's TARDIS and a snoring polar bear are among the highlights of this year's Christmas display at Glendoick Garden Centre

If it’s October… it must be time to take the wraps off Glendoick Garden Centre’s annual Christmas shop

Glendoick was named best garden centre Christmas display in Scotland in 2023 and 2024.

And the team behind the festive showstopper are quietly confident they’ve excelled themselves with this year’s line-up.

There’s a Santa’s TARDIS, a snoring polar bear, a fairy ball, dancing gnomes, an Instagram corner and, at the centre of it all, a centuries-old wishing tree.

Glendoick retail manager Valerie Harden and her crew start putting together the Christmas display in August. It’s spread across a vast area of the garden centre, divided into a series of themed rooms.

And it’s already pulling in the crowds. Glendoick owner Kenneth Cox said the garden centre had had a quieter spell than usual as a result of the long-running roadworks on the A90 between Perth and Dundee.

“As soon as we announced the Christmas shop was open we noticed the difference,” he said. “It’s been so busy. People are saying it’s our best ever.” Glendoick Christmas shop labelled ‘better than Harrods’

Valerie says people travel from all over the UK to see the Glendoick Christmas display. “It’s become part of people’s Christmas routines,” she said. “We get customers from down south, and over from the islands.

“Someone came up to me the other day and said ‘this is better than Harrods’.” This year’s display is bang up to date with an Instagram corner featuring a classy backdrop and starry lights.

Bosses hope fans will pause for a pose then post their favourite selfies on social media. But Valerie is particularly fond of the wishing tree. The giant tree stump is the survivor of a 400 year-old tree on the Glendoick estate which had to be felled a number of years ago. Visitors are encouraged to hang their wishes on the tree and these biodegradable hopes and prayers are later buried on the estate.

The Glendoick Christmas shop is open seven days a week between now and the big day.

Santa’s grotto will open at the end of next month, with all proceeds going to CHAS.