Beautiful Colonies Garden

Slateford Colonies, Edinburgh, Scotland.

"Terraced houses built by the Edinburgh Co-operative Building Company in the late-Victorian period. The terraces here are delightfully named after plants or trees: Primrose Terrace (1877), Ivy Terrace, closest to the camera, and Myrtle Terrace (1878), Laurel Terrace and Violet Terrace (1880), Daisy Terrace (1882) and Lily Terrace (1883)."

"The Edinburgh 'colonies' are well known locally as a distinctive form of housing, being terraced, low density and only of two storeys compared to the typical, 4 storey 19th century Scottish tenements of between 6 and 16 flats. The colonies were built by building tradesmen, who formed a limited liability company, between 1862 and 1930."