#Scottish gardens

[florealegiardini]

“Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.” – Rumi Abbotsford House, Scotland, United Kingdom ~ gisforgeorgina

[huariqueje]

Gertrude 's Garden  - Rory Hutton , 2023.

Scottish , b. 1980s

Digital linocut in colours on silk , 35 2/5 × 35 2/5 in. 90 × 90 cm.

[medieval-castle]

Abbotsford House  @gisforgeorgina

[scotianostra]

Very spring-like day in Edinburgh.🌞

[ingravinoveritas]

♫ I wanna stand with you on a mountain I wanna bathe with you in the sea I wanna lay like this forever Until the sky falls down on me... ♫

[thunderstruck9]

John Mackechnie (British, 1949), Kibble Palace - Refraction, 1978. Etching, 66 x 51 cm.

[vox-anglosphere]

Atop its mediaeval origins, Culzean Castle became a Georgian villa

[theweeowlart]

Glasgow today

Rain rain rain, flood alerts in place all over the country.

Trains are cancelled all over Scotland and some places are under water. We are fine so far here, but my little garden is getting drowned. I'm going to have to get my tulip bulbs planted soon for spring and get some weeding done but the weather has been so bad I've not ventured outside. I don't have wellingtons, I think I need to find some really cute wellies, Sainsbury have these ones, so this might be happening soon!! (but wish they had a Scottish flag)

[godzilla-reads]

—From Monthly Cleanings in a Scottish Garden by L.H. Soutar

[myfairynuffstuff]

John Maclauchlan Milne (1885 - 1957) - The Walled Garden. Oil on board.

[the-busy-ghost]

I have literally no influence on even the smallest section of this website so I don’t know why I’m posting this, except that I really feel that tumblr would love it:

If you’re going to Edinburgh (or already live there), and you like old houses, you might enjoy Gladstone’s Land. It’s one of the oldest houses on the Royal Mile; it’s tall and thin (six storeys above ground) with a forestair, arcaded shopfront and Renaissance painted ceilings; you can visit three floors, or stay for a holiday on one of the others, and there’s an ice cream parlour/coffee shop on the ground floor; and there are also special private tours (for example, a sexual history of Edinburgh) which I really feel would be right up the tumblr history community’s street. 

It doesn’t take very long to go around so it depends how much someone wants to spend like £7 on visiting an elderly Scots tenement but as someone who liked visiting very much, I do feel it gets overlooked and could give people a much better idea of Edinburgh’s history than some of the other stuff on the High Street, a lot of which is aimed at entrapping unfortunate tourists with tartan fiction. 

I mean here’s the wikipedia page so while I’ve not sold it very well, I’d hope to convince at least one person that if you are visiting Edinburgh then you could do worse than add it to your itinerary, maybe as a quick, quiet after-lunch attraction. 

Oh! And they let you touch stuff in there too, even the antiques! I mean, obviously one should be careful handling old items and in most cases I would not even want to touch but in this one they’ve obviously thought about what can withstand it and that definitely made it a bit more relaxed (those with children- a small number on Tumblr I know- take note). 

[florealegiardini]

Abbotsford House, Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom ~ gisforgeorgina

[huariqueje]

Orangery , Garden  - Rory Hutton , 2023.

Scottish , b. 1980s

Digital linocut in colours, on silk, 90 × 90 cm.

[scottishcottagecore]

walled garden

Balloch Country Park, Scotland

[scotianostra]

The Elephant and the Dug.

[ingravinoveritas]

Saw Michael reply to this tweet tonight and couldn't help wondering who he might have been thinking about...