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Christie was advised on the form, maintenance and development of the garden by
Professor Jijo Soya Suzuki, Master of the Soami School of Imperial Design. Suzuki considered the garden to the best Japanese garden in the Western world. Shinzaburo Matsuo lived and worked at Cowden as gardener from 1925
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On her father's death in 1902 it was found that he had disinherited both
Christie and her sister, leaving the entirety of his estate to an orphanage that he had founded without their knowledge. They contested the will and in 1903 it was settled with the estate being divided between the two sisters
156:(1824–1902), a Scottish industrialist and landowner. Christie had an elder brother, John Coldwells who died in childhood in his 12th year in 1872, and a younger sister, Alice Margaret. In 1865 Christie's father purchased the Castleton estate in the
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Christie's death in 1949 the garden was maintained by workers on the Cowden estate. In 1963 it was vandalised and the tea-houses and bridges were burned, and the lanterns and shrines knocked into the loch.
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In 1907, she visited China, Korea and Japan. While in Japan
Christie was fascinated by the Japanese formal style of gardening, an interest that would inspire her to create a Japanese garden at Cowden Castle.
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Christie's travels became more ambitious and she began to travel more widely. From 1904 to 1905 she travelled with her maid, Humphries, initially to India and then on to
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Christie kept an account of her travels in her diaries and she was in regular correspondence with her sister. She later wrote about her trips to the
Russian Empire in the book
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Bell, Morag; McEwan, Cheryl (1 January 1996). "The
Admission of Women Fellows to the Royal Geographical Society, 1892-1914; the Controversy and the Outcome".
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Through Khiva to golden
Samarkand; the remarkable story of a woman's adventurous journey alone through the deserts of Central Asia to the heart of Turkestan
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as places for tired soldiers to relax and rest. The café that
Christie managed was staffed by five Scottish women and served the soldiers fighting at the
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In 2014 Christie's great great niece Sara
Stewart started a fundraising campaign to raise £1,000,000 to restore the garden. The garden opened in 2019.
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at her home at Cowden Castle. She employed Taki Handi, from the Royal School of Garden Design in Nagoya, to help plan and design the garden. The
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voted to allow women to be elected members of the Society. On 10 February 1913 Christie was in the first cohort of women to be elected Fellows.
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Christie authored and co-authored several books about her travels, two of which she wrote with her sister, Alice.
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churchyard, east of Cowden. Her gardener Matsuo lies just to the south.
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Ratione receipts : in aid of the Scottish Red Cross
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Gardening Women: Their Stories From 1600 to the Present
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on the 29 January 1949 at Strathearn Road, Edinburgh.
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1023:Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
228:. Her adventures saw her camping in the snow at
453:The Christie burial plot in Muckhart churchyard
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