Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
General Subjects => Alpines => Topic started by: Maggi Young on June 11, 2020, 01:11:05 PM
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A well-known Scottish nursery is featured in Gardens Illustrated magazine as the Nursery of the Month. Matt Biggs, broadcaster and author and SRGC supporter- some of us have worked with Matt over many years, writes about Kevock Garden Plants -
https://www.gardensillustrated.com/gardens/kevock-garden-plants-nursery/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=10Jun (https://www.gardensillustrated.com/gardens/kevock-garden-plants-nursery/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=10Jun)
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Kevock Nursery was begun by Stella Rankin, with her husband, David,a former President of SRGC and has developed a good reputation for the standard of plants it produces, and the number of rare plants, often grown from Stella and David's seed collections. The nursery gained great publicity from the number of winning exhibits it has staged at the like of Chelsea, other RHS Shows and Gardening Scotland. Under the ownership of Elea Strang for several years now, the winning habit of Kevock has continued. Their team must be eagerly awaiting the re-introduction of flower shows!
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Stella and Elea when the ownership changed.
There's also a related article on "how to build a rock garden, with some plant suggestions too -
https://www.gardensillustrated.com/garden-advice/how-to/how-to-make-a-rock-garden/ (https://www.gardensillustrated.com/garden-advice/how-to/how-to-make-a-rock-garden/)
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Elea Strang
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Graham Gunn, Kevock nursery manager and first winner of the RHS Roy Lancaster Award.(Graham with his partner Ngaire Burston, both SRGC members of course - volunteers as SRGC Advertising manager)(Roy Lancaster is taking their photo in this shot by Dr Sally O'Halloran !)
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