Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh - alpine house and news

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more...

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still in the alpine house display this week  (This  display changes every week)

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more  ..... you can see how  extensive the  weekly display  is!

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now, across in the  Rock Garden area .....

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Camellia saluenensis in the rock garden @rbgedinburgh always flowers well

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Hannah loves the pulsatillas!

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some more  pulsatillas...  and you'll find  some  rhododendron pix from Hannah in the rhodo thread!

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Hannah thought there  were  some  saxifrages which were doing well ....

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a last sax  and  some extras!

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So many beautiful things - many thanks for showing.

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The Northern Lads :The Migration of Scottish Gardeners with Especial Reference to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew


    Ron McEwen Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24823/Sibbaldia.2013.55

https://journals.rbge.org.uk/rbgesib/article/view/55

Abstract:
 It is well known that a disproportionate number of plant collectors for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in the late 18th and 19th centuries were Scottish gardeners. Another important source of plants for Kew in its early days were the specialist London plant nurseries that were run by Scots. Less well known is the preponderance of Scots found in other areas of Kew’s work – gardeners in charge of the botanic garden, curators of various departments and gardeners who transferred to colonial botanic gardens. This Scottish phenomenon was not unique to Kew: it was found in other botanical and non-botanical institutions in London and the provinces. This paper charts the extent of the phenomenon and, on the basis of 18th- and 19th-century sources, analyses its causes.