{"id":6885,"date":"2016-09-19T00:23:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T22:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=6885"},"modified":"2016-09-19T10:33:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T08:33:59","slug":"6885","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=6885","title":{"rendered":"The Youngs of Aberdeen"},"content":{"rendered":"

On my way up north from Edinburgh by train I stopped off to visit Scottish Rockers ( Scottish Rock Garden Forum luminaries) Ian and Maggi Young’s wonderfully diverse garden in Aberdeen. Ian was actually the first person to review my book and I blogged about the review and Ian’s labour of love since 2003, his weekly Bulb Log here: http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=269<\/a>
\nMaggi is the intrepid commander-in-chief of the Scottish Rock Garden Forum and other FB fora for many years, a forum I used to follow daily until FB took over as there’s an enormous amount of information and knowledge there, and perhaps 30% or so of ornamentals are edible!
\nIan kindly volunteered to pick me up at the station and I spent a pleasant hour or two looking through their paradise. Although it wasn’t the best time of year to see the garden there were still a number of plants in flower and it was good to also meet Allium wallichii here too (see my blog about the Edinburgh botanics)…and this week’s Bulb Log from Ian features a great shot of this plant on the front page: http:\/\/www.srgc.org.uk\/logs\/logdir\/2016Sep141473851515BULB_LOG_3716.pdf
\n<\/a>Now to plan a spring visit!<\/p>\n