Arduaine Garden, May 12th. 2008



RBGE 6-7, 16 maj , Dawyck 8 maj, Stobo Castles water garden 8 maj, Glendoick 10 maj (Branklyn ikke besøgt), Brodick 11 maj - working on , Arduaine 12 maj , Crarae 13 maj , Benmore 14 maj , Glenarn 15 maj

Arduaine Garden, 12. Maj 2008 Foto: Hans Eiberg

Arduaine Garden, Lunch time R. arboreum ssp. zeylanicum, Arduaine R. auritum, Arduaine R. auritum, Arduaine R. charitopes, Arduaine R. cinnabarinum, Arduaine R. cinnabarinum, Arduaine R. cowanianum, Arduaine R. cowanianum, Arduaine R. cowanianum, Arduaine R. eudoxum, Arduaine R. edgeworthii, Arduaine R. formosum-Arduaine, Arduaine R. glaucophyllum white, Arduaine R. griffitianum, Arduaine R. habrotrichum, Arduaine R. luteiflorum, Arduaine R. nivium-Arduaine, Arduaine R. ramsdenianum, Arduaine R. rubiginosum white, Arduaine R. rude, Arduaine R. sanguineum, Arduaine R. scopulorum, Arduaine R. scopulorum, Arduaine R. scopulorum, Arduaine R. serpyllifolium, Arduaine R. sperabile var. weihsiense, leaf, Arduaine R. sperabile var.weihsiense, Arduaine R. spilanthum (polycladum HE), scales, Arduaine R. spilanthum? (polycladum HE), Arduiane R. spinuliferum, Arduaine R. spinuliferum, Arduaine R. williamsianum dwarf, Arduaine R. williamsianum dwarf, Arduaine R. zaleucum, Arduaine R. nuttallii, new growth R. nuttallii, scales under the leaf R. nuttallii, new leaf growth

The National Trust for Scotland has announced that the well-known and much-loved Arduaine Garden, near Kilmelford, Argyll, will be closed as part of the necessary cost-cutting measures across the Trust. If you want to save Arduaine, please spread the word wherever you can and write a letter or two to keep the matter in the public eye! As well as writing to the Herald and the Scotsman newspapers - their email addresses are mailto:letters_ts@scotsman.com and mailto:letters@theherald.co.uk respectively - it would be very helpful if you could email our Chief Executive, Kate Mavor, at mailto:kmavor@nts.org.uk, copying it to our Chairman, Shonaig MacPherson, at mailto:smacpherson@nts.orh.uk and our Head of Gardens, Jan Haenraets, at mailto:jhaenraets@nts.org.uk. If you prefer to write a letter, then the address for all the above is Wemyss House, 28, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, EH2 4ET, Scotland, UK. Our website and contacts can be found at www.arduaine-garden.org.uk; do have a look! Thank you very much for your help!

protistum 2009, Foto: Maurice Wilkins


Arduaine Garden, by Donald Hyatt
Arduaine Garden (www.arduaine-garden.org.uk/plant-collections/rhododendrons.html)
Arduaine Garden (http://www.gardens-of-argyll.co.uk/gardens/arduaine-garden.html
Arduaine Garden (www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/arduaine/arduainegarden/index.html

About Arduaine Garden in : Rhododendron and Camellia Yearbook (RHS) 2008; 59: page 64-75.