SCOTLAND has a strong tradition of walled gardens created at a distance from a country house or castle, originally to supply the Victorian or Edwardian homes built when productive kitchen gardens were at their zenith. A number survive and have been restored in recent decades, but even more impressive is when one is created from scratch, as has happened during the past few years at Aldourie Castle, which sits overlooking the head of Loch Ness a few miles south-west of Inverness.
In 2014, the 500-acre Aldourie estate was purchased by the Danish couple Anders and Anne Povlsen. Over the previous 10 years or so, Mr and Mrs Povlsen had acquired a series of Scottish estates, which, collectively, have made them the country’s
