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General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: Maggi Young on March 29, 2017, 03:53:08 PM

Title: St. Andrews Botanic Garden, Fife, Scotland
Post by: Maggi Young on March 29, 2017, 03:53:08 PM

St. Andrews Botanic Gardens (http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~gdk/stabg_new/index.html)

Canongate, St Andrews
Fife KY16 8RT


 Thanks to Willie Campbell for these photos


"Another Scottish garden visited this week, some gems to look out for at St. Andrews Botanic gardens. Great to see the work the Trust is putting into the garden, now with a full compliment of Gardeners and off course a great friends group. New plant centre opening  with lots of great alpine and shrubs from local nurseries."


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Pulsatilla vulgaris

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Erythronium ?

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Narcissus bulbocodium

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Narcissus calcicola

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Narcissus rupicola

Title: Re: St. Andrews Botanic Garden, Fife, Scotland
Post by: Maggi Young on March 29, 2017, 03:56:10 PM

It's great that some of the staff of the St. Andrews Botanic Garden are aslo keen young members of SRGC.

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Narcissus jonquilla

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Corydalis wilsonii

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Narcissus bulbocdium 2

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Fritillaria michaelovskyi

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Narcissus triandrus

Title: Re: St. Andrews Botanic Garden, Fife, Scotland
Post by: Maggi Young on March 29, 2017, 03:57:07 PM

Last photo from Willie Campbell... Lysichiton camtschatcensis -the   Eastern White Skunk cabbage in the pond

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Title: Re: St. Andrews Botanic Garden, Fife, Scotland
Post by: Maggi Young on March 29, 2017, 03:58:14 PM

Also at St. Andrews Bot. Gdn :

OPENING - Tropical Butterfly House - Saturday 1st April - 30th September. Amazing flight zone - experience these amazing butterflies up close.
Annual Garden and Butterfly House memberships for unlimited entry.

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Title: Re: St. Andrews Botanic Garden, Fife, Scotland
Post by: Carolyn on March 29, 2017, 09:04:31 PM

Erythronium 'White Beauty'


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I'm not convinced that this is 'White Beauty'. Looks more like E. oregonum maybe?

Title: Re: St. Andrews Botanic Garden, Fife, Scotland
Post by: Maggi Young on March 29, 2017, 09:12:02 PM

Came without a name, Carolyn and I just went with the white/cream pollen  and straight filaments - mind you it is missing the red zoning so not White Beauty!  Perhaps it is  E. multiscapideum - or a californicum hybrid. Not E. oregonum though.

Title: Re: St. Andrews Botanic Garden, Fife, Scotland
Post by: Carolyn on March 29, 2017, 09:18:49 PM

Yes, it was the red zoning which I was thinking of. My White Beauty are not out yet and I would be surprised if Fife was further on than us in the balmy SW.

Title: Re: St. Andrews Botanic Garden, Fife, Scotland
Post by: Maggi Young on March 29, 2017, 09:40:38 PM

Might be E. Cliftonii, which is a type of multiscadpideum - that's an earlier  form - I think St Andrews has a very favoured climate - even for you soft southern folks on the west!