Pentland Hills from Juniper Green, 1946
This watercolour shows the Pentland Hills as seen from the end of Baberton Crescent in Juniper Green. It's notable for the colourful array of vegetation in the middle-distance, on the far side of the main road. This area is now known as Dr Mackay's Wood, named after Dr Reggie MacKay who owned the land but gifted it to Edinburgh Corporation in 1939. A condition of the gift was that it be “kept as an open space and laid out as an ornamental pleasure ground". By the time Edwin painted the scene, in 1946, a so-called Fairy Gardens had been established there. Sadly these are no more, and trees planted in 2004 have been allowed to grow to the extent of largely obscuring the view of the Pentlands from this spot.
