Royal Botanical Gardens

We went to the Stockbridge Market, a few minutes walk from New Town as we'd read good things about it.  It was not bad.  Bought pot stickers and banana bread to eat there and olives and balsamic vinegar to go.   From there we happened up the Royal Botanical Gardens which became the highlight of the day and a great way to end our week here.

Andy Goldsworthy is an artist both Cathy and I really like.  Much of his stuff is ephemeral,  but at the gardens his two pieces are permanent.  The cone shape below is constructed of stones stacked atop each other.  Held together only by gravity and the weight of the stones themselves.

 

Light filtering through the trees.

 

The second Goldsworth piece. 

 

Petrified tree.  Great Britain's largest plant fossil.

 

The Queen Mother's Memorial Garden

 

A small section of a giant hedge.

 

Street sign on the way out.