Scotland's National Garden Show 1999 fell on the weekend of the 4th - 6th June, and it must be said, the weather this year was a VAST improvement over last year - meaning that Strathclyde Park didn't turn into a swamp ! The exhibits this year were if anything better than ever - in particular the floral displays and again, particularly the overall winner, South Lanarkshire Council (for the third year running) with the Lost World of Atlantis. This exhibit is on a totally separate page owing to it's size. For the technically minded, the pictures were taken using a Casio QV-300 digital camera and edited using a combination of MGI Photosuite 8.05 and Paint Shop Pro 4.0. There, that wasn't painful was it ! We spent some 5 hours at the show on Saturday 5th June, and excluding one gripe about apparently wrong admission details on the RHS website concerning disabled persons' admission had a great day. If you didn't make it this year GET THERE NEXT YEAR on the first weekend in June ! On with the photos.
4 pictures of Rhododendrons (no great surprise there !) I can't identify 3 of them, but the top left (white flower with purple centre) is Rhododendron "Sappho" (We received one of these as a wedding present but it's yet to flower).
I HAD to get a picture of this fuchsia because of the name !
This rose is called "Whisky Mac", and totally beside the point, as I write this page, I'm listening to "Craigie Dhu" by Dougie MacLean and thinking that I MUST get back to Ullapool this summer !
You won't be able to make it out from this picture, but the rose is called "Glenfiddich" (to the unenlightened that is the name of a particularly good single malt whisky from just outside Dufftown in Scotland, second only, in my opinion, to Laphroaig from Islay, an aqquired taste admittedly, but well worth the effort !)
Anyway, here's some more photos in no particular order.
