The park is designed designed with ideas in mind – and to provoke
thought (or at least speculation) about the very nature of things in Scotland
in 1989, which named “The Garden of Cosmic Speculation” which takes science and
maths as it’s inspiration. The garden was set up by Charles Jencks, together
with his late wife Maggie Keswick and is situalted at Portrack House near
Dumfries.
Tremendous spiraling mounds rising several stories high portray
the “science of complexity.” The Universe Cascade is a series of steps
ascending from a giant pond which signifies the unfolding of the universe
across billions of years. A tennis court is named The Sense of Fair Play,
when a forest nested by noisy crows is called The Garden of Taking Leave of
Your Senses.
