Little Sparta

Gardens Near and Far episode 36: The Little Sparta garden is South of Edinburgh and lost in the Pentland. It was Ian Hamilton Finlay’s art piece of a lifetime. The late twentieth century Scottish poet and artist was an influent member of the experimental movement referred to as “concrete poetry”.     To reach Little Sparta, you need to cross the meadows on foot to finally enter this extraordinary garden. In 1966, Ian Hamilton Finlay decides to settle here with his wife Sue to design a garden dedicated to poetry where he will be able to create his art and […]