One of the outdoor displays at Gardening Scotland 2016 was of various birds of prey. There’s actually a place near where I live where someone keeps birds of prey. I’ve seen a bloke walking in Markinch with an owl on his arm. I have also seen them being displayed in a shopping mall in Kirkcaldy.

I think this is a long-eared owl:-

A Falcon?:-

Barn owl:-

This looks like a female lesser kestrel:-

One of the exhibits I was most taken with at Gardening Scotland at Ingliston in June was the display of bonsai in one of the buildings on the site.

This “landscape” with “trees” was delightful. That circular wooden stand behind has a kind of Art Deco look too!

More “trees”:-

A framed “tree”:-

These plants were trained in a kind of zigzag effect:-

Just to continue the gardening theme….

The good lady is a keen gardener and had always hankered to visit Gardening Scotland at Ingliston. This year we finally got it together to see the show.

There weren’t many show gardens but one of them was in commemoration of the 100^th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme:-

Side view:-

Another was on behalf of Erskine Hospital which cares for injured veterans of British wars. I only got round to this photo as the garden was being dismantled:-