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I'm ashamed to confess that despite living in Edinburgh for 4 years and now living only an hour's drive away, I have never been to Edinburgh Botanic Gardens. I have however been to two of it's sister gardens - Benmore and Dawyck - definitely recommended both. Edinburgh is on my 'must see' list and maybe over the next few months we will get around to it.

I used to live directly across the road from Glasgow Botanic Gardens in a wee bedsit, but that was long before I was bitten by the gardening bug, and tho I did walk through it on the odd occasion I didn't really appreciate it as I would appreciate it now.
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  • Gardeners' World Web UserGardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147
    In my youth I made lots of trips to Birmingham Botanic Gardens - via school biology/geography and family trips. It's a great place, futher enlivened at the time by a cockatoo which swore like a trooper.
  • Gardeners' World Web UserGardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147
    I always start the year planning to visit lots of gardens but work and wanting to be in my own garden tend to get in the way. I even missed the Edinburgh Botanic gardens when we visited Edinburgh a couple of years ago. Maybe this year I will do better
  • Gardeners' World Web UserGardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147
    Even better than visiting Botanic Gardens is to be a volunteer gardener in one. I have been such in the Bristol Botanic garden for some years now and it gives me inspiration, help with tricky problems, and free seeds and plants as well as making lots of very good friends with other gardening enthusiasts. Some very exotic plants I look upon as "mine" now as i have cared for them over the years.
  • Gardeners' World Web UserGardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147
    Forget going to Edinburgh BG the one in Glasgow is much better and free to get into!
    Have a look at The Glasgow Botanic Garden web pages:
    http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/Residents/Parks_Outdoors/Parks_gardens/botanicgardens.htm
  • Gardeners' World Web UserGardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147
    How do I prune my very 'leggy' Anthurium Andreanum please
  • Gardeners' World Web UserGardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147
    Akela Anne - cut your leggy plant down to just above the crown and re-pot. You can root any small off-shoots in small pots. You would be well advised to look up the potting medium as it has to be a well-aerated one.
  • Gardeners' World Web UserGardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147
    Aponogeton - why can't I visit both Glasgow and Edinburgh and then decide for myself which one I prefer?
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    mY FAMILY AND i VISITED CIMBRIDGE BOTANIC GARDENS ONE SUNDAY IN LATE WINTER THIS YEAR. IT WAS WONDERFUL AND EVEN MY 3 ADOLESCENTS (WHO THINK I'M A PLANT NERD) ENJOYED IT. THE FRAGRANCES OF THE WINTER FLOWERING SHRUBS WERE UNBELIEVABLE AND I GOT LOTS OF IDEAS FROM THE WINTER GARDEN.
  • Gardeners' World Web UserGardeners' World Web User Posts: 17,147
    In the words of the poet laureate when I was a child - "Go down to Kew in lilac-time, in lilac-time,in lilac-time. Go down to Kew in lilac-time. It isn't far from London." Our greatest botanic garden is now a world heritage site and the lilacs are showing great promise this year.
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    I have grown some beautiful tulips this year, but they are unusual and have five heads on one stalk. Has any one else ever some across this?
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