I did not include this photo of the main information board at Edzell Castle in my first post about it so here it is now:-

Nor this one for the walled garden:-

This board in the visitor centre exhibition is about the then laird of Edzell Castle, David Lindsay, being a signatory of the National Address which put in motion the sequence of events which led to the Darien Disaster, Scotland’s ill-fated attempt to set up a colony in what is now Panama:-

The furthest corner of Edzell Castle’s garden from the castle’s tower has a summer house built into it.

Summer house at corner of Edzell Castle’s garden walls:-

From inside garden:-

Close up from grounds:-

From beside west wall:-

The walls of Edzell Castle‘s garden have some interesting carved panels.

The doorway into the garden from the grounds has the arms of Sir David Lindsay above it:-

On the west wall are carved the seven Cardinal Virtues, on the south the seven Liberal Arts and on the east the seven Planetary Deities.

Plaque on Cardinal Virtues wall:-

Plaque on Liberal Arts wall:-

Plaque on Planetary Deities wall:-

The box hedging in the garden of Edzell Castle was famous for its intricate topiarised Latin inscriptions but has suffered box blight and is no longer as magnificent as below:-

Window onto garden:-

Garden information board:-

Garden from Tower:-

Garden + tower:-

Garden topiary + box hedging:-

Tower from garden:-

The interior of Edzell Castle is like many such ruined former grand buildings in Scotland – open to the sky, bare floors, sandstone walls.

Internal doorway:-

Staircase:-

Fireplace:-

Arch from a collapsed oven. That was some size of oven:-

We had meant to visit Edzell Castle, which lies just north-west of Brechin in Angus, for some time now. It is famous for its walled garden with box hedging arrangement. Last August we managed to book a visiting slot. The castle is now in the care of Historic Scotland. The present castle is on a site somewhat removed from the old motte and bailey castle.

Edzell Castle from motte and bailey site:-

From the castle grounds:-

A corner tower:-

Entrance and square tower:-

Doorway:-

Castle entrance from east:-

Castle tower from southwest:-

Part of castle with walled garden to left:-

The mound of the old motte and bailey Castle is easily seen from the south wall:-

Edzell is a village in Angus, Scotland, about six miles from Brechin. We stopped there on our way down from Aberdeenshire hoping to go to Edzell Castle but it was shut for the winter.

I did however find a Boer War Memorial standing in a railed enclosure just off the road through the town. It takes the form of a Celtic cross inscribed, “To the memory of gallant soldiers belonging to Edzell & District who fell in the Great Boer War 1899-1900-1901-1902. ‘Decorum est pro patria mori.'”:-

From south, remembering Lt Colonel D T Laing, killed near Lindley, 3/1/1901, aged 41:-

Reverse, dedicated to Private James Paterson, killed Magersfontein, 11/12/1899, aged 21; Private James Candy, killed at Paarderberg, 18/2/1900, aged 30, and Private William Walker, died of wounds, Wyndberg, 22/3/1900, aged 21:-

From north, dedicated to Colour Sergeant David Christison, killed Magersfontein, 11/1/2 1899, aged 30, and Trooper W A Mcnab, died at Kroonstad, 23/2/1902, aged 21:-