Dry Stone Walling with Richard Love
Edinburgh Outdoors19 Maalis 2025

Dry Stone Walling with Richard Love

Richard Love changed career in his mid forties to become a dry stone waller and has enjoyed a long career in the outdoors creating everything from Pentland walls to works of art for artists.

Richard and I met in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh to view the Nepalese prayer gate, a project he worked on some years ago. We rang the bell on the gate and talked about how it was constructed and how it stays standing, his career as a dry stone waller, his teaching of the craft, his previous role chairing the Drystone Walling Association, and his lifelong love of the outdoors.

If you want to visit the Nepalese prayer gate you can find it here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/3Ywu743kN9czYtym8

For more information about the Drystone Walling Association: https://www.dswa.org.uk/

You can read about the construction of the prayer gate and view pictures on the RBGE website: https://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/29979

To find out more about storm Eowyn damage and donate to the RBGE recovery fund: https://www.rbge.org.uk/news/storm-eowyn/

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