Edzell Castle is a ruined 16th-century castle with a walled garden of the early 17th century, near the village of Edzell, about five miles north of Brechin in Angus, Scotland. David Lindsay, 9th Earl of Crawford, began it around 1520. His son, Sir David Lindsay, Lord Edzell, extended it and laid out the Renaissance garden in 1604.
The castle is more of a country house than a defensive structure, and it includes a tower house of four stories and ranges around a courtyard. The garden's carved panels show the planetary deities, the liberal arts and the cardinal virtues, and the garden is described as unique in Scotland.
The Lindsays sold the castle in 1715. It entered state care in the 1930s, and Historic Environment Scotland runs it as a visitor attraction.
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