In a Japanese garden

Newly opened this season is the restored Japanese garden near Dollar, and we visited it for the first time this afternoon.
 
Behind it lies the story of a remarkable Scottish adventurer Ella Christie, who returned home after one of her exotic trips and was inspired to create a seven acre Japanese garden in the grounds of her home Cowden Castle.
 
It is the first and only one of such size and scale to be designed by a woman, the Japanese designer Taki Handa, and it remains a unique and authentic bridge between Scottish and Japanese cultures.
 
Ella Christie did not begin her travels until after the death of her father in 1904 when she was 43 and she set off for India, Tibet and Malay.
 
She once sailed in a cargo boat full of pigs and her trunks contained dresses for parties. She was the first Western woman to travel from Samarkand to Khiva.
 
 
After an adventurous life that included being the first Western woman to meet the Dalai Lama she  died in 1949 aged 87.
 

Today the garden is in the process of being restored and its now a registered charity open to the public during the summer months from Wednesday to Sunday.
Link: Japanese garden
 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-23970528