Visit Little Sparta - a poet/artists garden by Findlay (a soldier then shepherd and poet/artist including sculptor) who passed in 2006. His trust (estate and gardens) is located near Edinburgh in the UK. The gardens seem wonderful and curious, indeed. The above image is from wildgoosechase’s flickr page - which is filled with careful beautiful and yet somehow delightfully tousled images. more of her images from her visit to the garden here. from the Sparta site on the gardens: “Finlay’s intentions are moral and philosophical as well as poetic. The themes dealt with in the garden are those which underlie the structures of society. The French Revolution, pre-Socratic views of the nature of the world. The Second World War, the sea and its fishing fleets are among the sources of metaphor and image which are realized in the garden’s art works which now number over 275.”
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Visit Little Sparta - a poet/artists garden by Findlay (a soldier then shepherd and poet/artist including sculptor) who passed in 2006. His trust (estate and gardens) is located near Edinburgh in the UK. The gardens seem wonderful and curious, indeed.

The above image is from wildgoosechase’s flickr page - which is filled with careful beautiful and yet somehow delightfully tousled images.

more of her images from her visit to the garden here.

from the Sparta site on the gardens:

“Finlay’s intentions are moral and philosophical as well as poetic. The themes dealt with in the garden are those which underlie the structures of society. The French Revolution, pre-Socratic views of the nature of the world. The Second World War, the sea and its fishing fleets are among the sources of metaphor and image which are realized in the garden’s art works which now number over 275.”