Local Knowledge

The ScotsmanJune 07, 2008

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IMAGINE IF YOU were to head off on a tour of Scotland, stopping to chat with the country's garden experts at every town along the way. You could find out which trees stand up to the wind in Shetland, which climbers will survive on a north-facing wall and even which plants are widely offered for sale in Scotland but should be left on the shelf.

Sadly, most of us don't have the time, resources or contacts to take such a trip, but the good news is that two men have done it for us. Glendoick Gardens managing director Kenneth Cox and garden designer Raoul Curtis-Machin have produced Garden Plants for Scotland.

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So why write a Scotland-specific reference guide when there are already well-respected plant guides covering the whole of the UK? "There is a tendency for garden centres to just put the same label on from Land's End to John O'Groats," says Cox. "It's not exactly d...

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