The Designer Gardens

Yesterday Kath (Scotkat) and I went to visit Glendoick. The plan was to have lunch, then look around the GC, then the Gardens. We managed to stick to the plan, and I only bought a Eucalyptus Gunnii to plant in the pot that was recently vacated by my once lovely (and very very expensive) but now very dead standard Holly (still very upset with myself about the holly – shouldn’t have bought it, it hardly ever works out for me when I spend a lot of money on a plant!).

I took a few pics in the gardens, I expect Kath will do a blog as she took loads more than me. This was Kath’s first ever visit. Unfortunately we had left it a bit late to see the Rhodys. There was a lot of evidence of hard pruning of some large shrubs after the winter, especially the Camellias, and some of the rhody’s were very dead looking, but I guess they have left some of them to see if they will regrow at all. So sad to see big rhody’s that have been there for many years having to be replaced, but that’s nature.

Here is a pretty pink Rhododendron that was catching some rays….

And a huge orangey one in amongst all the trees…

I think this is Enkianthus….again, a large shrub in the garden….

A lovely Cream coloured rhodythis one was really huge.

Acer Griseum among bluebells

Close up of the bark

Unidentified shrub…any ideas?

Beautiful tree in the Carse of Gowrie looking from the gardens, but using zoom lens…

We had a great time and the weather was kind to us…thanks again for a lovely day out Kath!

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