The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
Dumfries & Galloway | Holywood | Garden | ★★★★ [Slug Lakes and the Snake and Snail Mounds] The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is only open for one day each year, but if the sun's shining and you're in the area you should make every effort to visit this unusual, quirky work of landscape art. Graceful landforms, sculptures, bridges and gardens celebrating the universe, nature and the senses are waiting to be explored, only slightly marred by hundreds of others doing the same thing. Some of it gets quite technical (the Quark Walk gets you up to speed with the Standard Model of Elementary Particles, for example), many parts are fun for kids (with curving mounds, bridges and walkways including the Snake and Snail Mounds and the Comet Bridge ), while other areas are simply beautiful gardens in the more conventional sense (such as the Linear Paradise Garden ). It's all spread over 30 acres of picturesque Dumfriesshire countryside bordering the River Nith, and is the br