This is the amazing Garden of Cosmic Speculation in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. The garden was built on the 30-acre Portrack Estate, which was owned by renowned landscape architect and theorist Charles Jencks and his wife Maggie Keswick. Jencks conceived and designed the contemporary cosmology-inspired garden.
In a perfect blend of nature, science, and art, the garden’s many structures, sculptures, and arrangements are meant to represent our universe’s creation story. The garden incorporates fractals, DNA helixes, the Big Bang theory, and black holes. The garden is private, and is only open to the public one day per year, typically on the first Sunday in May. That gives you plenty of time to plan your visit! All proceeds raised on the public day go to Maggie’s Centres, a cancer foundation named for Jencks’s late wife Maggie.
You can learn all about the Garden of Cosmic Speculation on their website and on Instagram.
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May 31, 2020 at 7:11 am
I love the “M C Esher” like blue door.
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May 31, 2020 at 9:46 am
That is wonderful!
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May 31, 2020 at 7:39 am
Amazing!
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May 31, 2020 at 9:46 am
It’s so cool! I want to go there when it opens next year.
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May 31, 2020 at 8:55 am
Amazing! I will need to tell my parents about this. They love to do those annual open day things and this garden would really appeal to them – though last year they chose to go on a tour of a crematorium.
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May 31, 2020 at 9:47 am
LOL. I can see the appeal of a crematorium, too.
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May 31, 2020 at 2:39 pm
It is artistic. Interesting to look at. Going back to my RV travel/living days, It is was 50 miles or less out of the way I would go look at it. over 50 miles I would bypass it. Hal
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May 31, 2020 at 4:15 pm
So I guess an ocean would be a deal-breaker…
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May 31, 2020 at 6:38 pm
I have been to both thanks to the US Navy. I have been to the outer banks with my RV. Been to Norfork. Been to Long Beach CA. My sister lives in Riverside CA and the beachs is less then 50 miles. Today, I have been to the Gulf. Camped in New Orleans for two to four weeks a number of times also. I camped in Texas a walk to the gulf. But when camping I have never a time schedule. If there was something interesting I went on a lot of side trips. Hal
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June 1, 2020 at 8:04 am
That sounds like a lovely way to travel!
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May 31, 2020 at 4:09 pm
Beautiful and unique.
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May 31, 2020 at 4:15 pm
It really is!
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July 12, 2020 at 11:31 am
This garden does indeed invite me to speculate on the cosmic. Lovely.
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July 12, 2020 at 11:48 pm
It’s it marvelous the crazy, beautiful things people think up?
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