Yesterday we ventured into the Scottish countryside to view a garden like none other I’ve ever seen. The “Garden of Cosmic Speculation” was built on a 30-acre estate by Maggie Keswick and Charles Jencks over a number of years on an estate that Maggie inherited from her parents.
The garden’s design celebrates and was inspired by science – with numerous mini-gardens with names such as “Black Hole Terrace” or the “DNA Garden” (with sculptures of double helixes). It’s sometimes shockingly modern and at the same time whimsical.
An organization called Scotland’s Gardens Scheme works with private gardens throughout the country to open their gardens to the public and raise funds for a designated charity while doing so. In this case, they were raising funds for Maggie’s cancer caring centers, which Maggie Keswick set up after a recurrence of breast cancer to give support to people with cancer and their loved ones. Her belief which sparked her setting up the centers was that people facing cancer should not “lose the joy of living in the fear of dying”.
Both Maggie Keswick and Charles Jencks have passed away but their legacy lives on in both the garden and in the cancer caring centers.
Wishing you the joy of living amid challenging times in your own lives as well as in this crazy world.
More on the garden (with better pictures): https://gardenofcosmicspeculation.com
More on Maggie’s centers: https://www.maggies.org
Beautiful, amazing & educational! I love it! Is it near Glasgow?
Hi Gloria, I’m glad you liked it. It’s about a good hour and a half to the south and east of Glasgow, in what they call the borders area, not too far from England.
Amazing & interesting. This uplifting adventure came to me at the perfect time! Thank you.
I’m glad you found it interesting . Hope you’re doing well!
Very cool garden. I love the sciency theme, especially since so many are disparaging of science these days. Miss you😘
What a beautiful display of photos. Thank you for all your efforts.
Marlene