Scotland’s Capability Brown?

“He was the son of a humble Edinburgh market gardener, who through chance and sheer talent became France’s best-loved horticulturist, designer of some of the country’s most stunning gardens and a companion to the aristocracy.

And it was to Thomas Blaikie, the straight-talking Scot with a passion for plants, that Marie Antoinette turned as her decadent days were numbered.” Well you did ask. An innocent paving slab on today’s interesting Embra visit!