My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.

National Galleries of Scotland. The Little Sparta Trust plans to preserve Little Sparta for the nation by raising enough to pay for an ongoing maintenance fund. In Zdenek Felix & Pia Simig (eds.

Ian Hamilton Finlay CBE (28 October 1925 – 27 March 2006) was a Scottish poet writer artist and gardener.