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What did early Scottish gardens look like? Evocative and tantalising remains of "missing gardens" such as earthworks, stone walls, doocots, date stones, terracing, traceries of paths, sundials, a few ancient yews, and the gardens themselves -- Culross, Edzell, Pitmedden, Kinross -- fire the imagination as Sheila Mackay guides the reader on a personal tour of the 16th, 17th and 18th-century gardens of Scotland. Illustrated with over 90 photographs, paintings, sketches, plans and line-drawings, the volume explores the gardens at Holyrood, Taymouth Castle, Neidpath Castle, Edzell Castle, Stirling…mehr

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What did early Scottish gardens look like? Evocative and tantalising remains of "missing gardens" such as earthworks, stone walls, doocots, date stones, terracing, traceries of paths, sundials, a few ancient yews, and the gardens themselves -- Culross, Edzell, Pitmedden, Kinross -- fire the imagination as Sheila Mackay guides the reader on a personal tour of the 16th, 17th and 18th-century gardens of Scotland. Illustrated with over 90 photographs, paintings, sketches, plans and line-drawings, the volume explores the gardens at Holyrood, Taymouth Castle, Neidpath Castle, Edzell Castle, Stirling Castle, Dunbar's Close, Culross Palace, Pitmedden, Craigievar, Crathes, Kinross House, Yester House, Blair Adam, Drummond Castle, Penicuik House, Blair Castle and The Hermitage. A map indicates the location of all the gardens explored in the book.
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Sheila Mackay