On the south side of the house, Kinross designed four formal garden terraces still planted in Edwardian style. A geometric terrace is now stocked with floribunda roses and hostas, To one side is a small grass terrace, edged by four large stone vases. Below it, through a wrought-iron gate with griffins adorning the piers, is a tennis lawn, and below that, a croquet lawn. There is a stone dovecote on the far side of the elevated terrace provided for.

The lower terraces are surrounded by a bank of rhododendrons down to the lake, smoothly achieving the transition from nineteenth-century formal gardens to eighteenth-century picturesque landscape.*

The lower terrace and the lake can be viewed in my previous post.

*From the Manderston guidebook

The Home of Lord Palmer, Manderston is the Edwardian House par excellence. It was built with no expense spared and with every modern convenience of that  era. Here you can see sumptuous staterooms and a silver staircase, the only one in the world. Coupled with the elaborate domestic quarters, it gives an intriguing insight into the daily life of the Edwardian Country House.

Outside there a princely stables, octagonal marble dairy and fifty six acres of garden immaculately kept to enjoy.*

*From a leaflet advertising the house

Before leaving on their journey to the borders, the Scottish Army assembled just outside Edinburgh.

Quite by fluke I found myself having an in-car picnic near the town of Duns where the Scottish army camped during their journey to Flodden.  I had just bought my sandwiches when,  quite normally  when I am intending a picnic, it started to rain.   At least it gave me a chance to visualise what the conditions must have been like in the run up to the battle, before I was able to escape the rain by crossing the border back to England and sunshine.

***Index to my posts on Flodden.***