Boys' Ploughing Match and Festival of the Horse
Children in elaborate horse costumes parade, then boys plough miniature furrows in the sand at the Hope.
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"Hundreds of Uppies and Doonies wrestle a leather ball through the streets of Kirkwall on Christmas Day and New Year's Day."
Kirkwall Ba' Game
"Three remote island gardens open on Rousay for one July day, including a community school garden planted over 20 years by students, set in Orkney's extraordinary prehistoric landscape."
Rousay Summer Garden Day
"A world-renowned week celebrating Britain's most northerly native sheep and the Shetland textile tradition, with knitting demonstrations, croft visits, a new hat pattern each year and events spread across the islands for 2026's Together Through Makkin theme."
Shetland Wool Week
"Birthplace of the Scottish Snowdrop Festival, Cambo Estate holds the Plant Heritage national collection of over 200 specialist snowdrop varieties carpeting 70 acres of woodland walks down to the Fife coast."
Cambo Estate Snowdrop Festival
"Cornet and mounted supporters ride the marches to drum and fife, commemorating a 1514 skirmish."
Hawick Common Riding
"Hundreds of riders follow the standard bearer round the burgh boundaries in the oldest of the Borders common ridings."
Selkirk Common Riding
"A week of riding the marches, crowning of the Beltane Queen and pageantry in this Tweed valley town."
Peebles Beltane Festival
"Three private gardens open in a Stirlingshire village at the foot of the Campsie Fells, from a tiny walled garden with a topiary rabbit to a Victorian arbour with views of the hills."
Gardens of Milton of Campsie