Tag Archives: Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh

Movers and Shakers

Posted on 14/11/2020 by The Gardens Trust

Last week’s post ended with the image printed in 1828 of  Sir Henry Stuart’s balance-men being catapulted through the air while trying to move a tree, but over the following twenty years or so  gardeners, foresters and landscapers invented a … Continue reading →

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Lady Charlotte and “the job six times too big”

Posted on 30/05/2020 by The Gardens Trust

Last week’s post looked at the plant hunting activities of Lady Charlotte Wheeler-Cuffe who travelled around Burma between 1897 and 1921. Today’s continues her story. In 1913 her husband Sir Otway was posted to Maymyo a small hill station 26 … Continue reading →

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More than just a knotty problem…

Posted on 13/01/2018 by The Gardens Trust

There are plenty of choices for plants that are a nuisance and  almost as many for those that are a damned nuisance or worse. Depending on your location and circumstances it could Brambles, Nettles, Docks, Ground Elder, Marestail, Hogweed …the … Continue reading →

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On Don and Don and Don and Don…

Posted on 21/10/2017 by The Gardens Trust

I know Monty may be the only Don you’ve heard of but this is not  a post about him. Instead its about some of his 18th and 19thc ancestors who were also well-known horticulturists and botanists.  The family came from the … Continue reading →

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