Gardens

The Japanese Garden at Cowden attracts visitors from around the world

Scottish hillside is home to 'the most important Japanese garden in western world'
The Japanese Garden at Cowden Upper, Dollar: When Sara Stewart inherited seven acres of overgrown shrubbery and silted-up lakes on the slopes of the Ochils, she could simply have closed the gate and let nature take over.However, Sara knew that beneath the brambles and self-seeded sycamores lay something of an enigma, one of the most outstanding examples of a Japanese garden outside of Japan itself, so she set about rescuing it.

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