Regent, Royal and Carlton Terrace Gardens

The gardens are secluded high up on the hill, with impressive views southeast over Holyrood to Arthur's Seat and north across the Firth of Forth to Fife.

[6] In 2012, this court area was enlarged and the red brick dust surface was replaced with green asphalt.

The following tree species were recorded in the gardens at the end of the 20th century: ash (Fraxinus excelsior), beech, black poplar (Populus nigra), cherry (Prunus avium), common lime (Tilia × europaea), English elm (Ulmus minor 'Atinia'), hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna), holly, horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum), laburnum (Laburnum anagyroides), Norway maple (Acer platanoides), oak (Quercus robur), rowan (Sorbus aucuparia), silver birch (Betula pendula), small leafed lime (Tilia cordata), sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa), sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus), tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera), whitebeam (Sorbus aria), white poplar (Populus alba), and wych elm (Ulmus glabra).

[1] The management of the gardens is governed by a Local Act of Parliament, the Regent, Royal and Carlton Terrace Gardens, Edinburgh Order Confirmation Act 1970, which received Royal Assent in May 1970, based on the original Contract of Feu of 1836.

[1] The journalist and editor Arnold Kemp wrote of his experiences serving on the association committee in the 1970s in a 1993 article for The Herald.

Afternoon in March in the centre of Regent Gardens, Edinburgh
The Regent, Royal and Carlton Terrace Gardens on an ordnance survey map from 1890s
Sign by the west entrance to Regent Gardens
Crocuses in Regent Gardens in February
Title page for the Contract of Feu of 1836 for Calton Hill Pleasure Ground
Ha-ha in Regent Gardens, planted with horse chestnuts
Arthur's Seat
Arthur's Seat