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EPISODE · Nov 5, 2025 · 8 MIN

Gardening Stories: Little Sparta gardens in Scotland

from The Pat Kenny Show

In the middle of the Scottish hills, far from the museums and polite drawing rooms of Edinburgh, there’s a garden unlike any other on earth. It’s called Little Sparta, and it was created by one man. Ian Hamilton Finlay who turned a bleak stretch of moorland into a living battlefield of art and ideas. Diarmuid Gavin tell us more about LIttle Sparta.

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