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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.