Not Scotland - but still thistles and a castle

Actually not even a castle, but a "castellated mansion" built for William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale, and finished in 1814.  And not Scotland either - snapped on a trip over the border to Cumbria's Lowther Castle.

National Trust are doing a great job restoring it after it was used for tank practice in the Second World War - all of the flower beds you can see running up to the castle were concreted over, then after the war they were used to support an egg farm.