Blair Castle features on Making Scotland's Landscape

Each week’s Making Scotland's Landscape, sees Iain Stewart take a different theme – Trees, Earth, Sea, Water and Climate, revealing how these and man have combined to make the land we know today.

In the first episode, Trees, he examines how, over thousands of years, the actions of man and climate very nearly led to the demise of Scotland’s trees and forests. And he examines the patchwork efforts to re-establish woodlands in Scotland over the last few centuries.

Blair Castle's grounds were used by the Dukes of Atholl to experiment with planting exotic tree species for the mid 1700s to the mid 1800s and features in this first episode as the 'Planter Dukes of Atholl', who planted 21 million trees on the hills of perthshire.

The programme was aired on 24 October and will be repeated on Saturday 30 October at 17.40 on BBC Two Scotland.

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