Every now and again we get the opportunity to visit some truly spectacular locations across Scotland. But the Japanese Gardens at Cowden Castle was something else entirely.

We were invited by Brighter Bervie to help create a dry stone feature wall for their new Heritage Garden project to mark the 675th anniversary of Inverbervie being granted Royal Burgh status by King David II in 1342

To commemorate the wounded and fallen of the 51st Highland Division, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) Association commissioned well-known Scottish artist Alan Beattie Herriot to sculpt a bronze 3/4 height statue depicting a piper of The Black Watch dressed in Second World War battledress to be erected in the grounds of Balhousie Castle. The Central Scotland Branch were delighted to be invited to build a curved dry stone wall to surround the statue.