I love gardens and this is one of the 4 making up the Royal Botanic Gardens along with Edinburgh, Dawyck near Peebles in the Borders region and Benmore near Dunoon. Due to it’s southerly location it takes the most advantage of the warm Gulf Stream it is home to the most exotic plants including those from South America and New Zealand.
This is part of the “Walled Garden”. Wind, more than temperature is the biggest danger to the plants.
This is the Filo Pastry Tree. The name comes from the bark.
This palm is all over the UK
Coryalis Austalis
Not just trees.
The Wollemi Pine was known only through fossil remains and thought extinct until discovered in a temperate rain forest in New South Wales in 1994. Extremely rare.
There are a number of tree ferns
And bush ferns
And this garden of Great Gunnera is growing dramatically by the week.
With other, less hardy pants in the glass house.
I met Adrian, a volunteer photographer for the Edinburgh Gardens. He is on a 52 week project taking the same route and pictures from the same spot to highlight the year-round garden. We walked and talked, had a coffee and he dropped me off at my hotel on his way home. Thanks.
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I am so envious. This garden blows my mind. It’s amazing how you run into or find people, that
are fascinating and so friendly. That pine that they found in 1944, have they gotten any seedlings
from the tree. Or have they tried to duplicate in any way? And how big is the glass house. Looks
like a lot of succulents? How many Master gardeners? And how many people work on the over all
garden. Is this like spring or early summer over there? And I am sure the Gulfstream has a lot to
do with it, do you know what latitude it is on?