Little Sparta

Little Sparta survived numerous disputes, or "Wars" as Finlay termed them, regarding the rating of the Garden Temple.

The wars are documented in the papers of Graeme Moore, landscape artist who worked with Finlay, held by the University of Pennsylvania’s Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts.

Finlay conceived the garden as composed around inter-connected pools, burns and a small loch, Lochan Eck.

Their immediate surrounding areas, whether paved, grassy or covered with plants, always needed a lot of individual attention in the summer".

[7] James Campbell, writing in The Guardian, describes the garden as "one of the wonders of 20th-century art", and agrees with Hamilton Finlay's description of himself as the "avant-gardener".