The Linn Botanic Garden
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An idiosyncratic oasis on Scotland’s West Coast
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Hey folks, due to serious issues with the rebuild of The Linn Villa, we have diggers and scaffold everywhere again and the garden isn’t safe to open to visitors.
We’re looking to try and find a weekend that works for an open day, but for now that’s all that we can realistically manage I am afraid.
We’re looking to try and find a weekend that works for an open day, but for now that’s all that we can realistically manage I am afraid.
Hey folks, due to serious issues with the rebuild of The Linn Villa, we have diggers and scaffold everywhere again and the garden isn’t safe to open to visitors.
We’re looking to try and find a weekend that works for an open day, but for now that’s all that we can realistically manage I am afraid.
We’re looking to try and find a weekend that works for an open day, but for now that’s all that we can realistically manage I am afraid.
June 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Hey folks, due to serious issues with the rebuild of The Linn Villa, we have diggers and scaffold everywhere again and the garden isn’t safe to open to visitors.
We’re looking to try and find a weekend that works for an open day, but for now that’s all that we can realistically manage I am afraid.
We’re looking to try and find a weekend that works for an open day, but for now that’s all that we can realistically manage I am afraid.
Spiky Bed’s looking nice at the moment.
May 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Spiky Bed’s looking nice at the moment.
Americans must have realised they could never truly be Top Nation the minute they allowed ranch dressing to come into existence.
May 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Americans must have realised they could never truly be Top Nation the minute they allowed ranch dressing to come into existence.
We planted these last year for a dear friend who committed suicide. It’s really nice to see them up and looking so nice. Love you, pal.
May 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
We planted these last year for a dear friend who committed suicide. It’s really nice to see them up and looking so nice. Love you, pal.
I’m calling this composition ‘A Penguin Through Magnolia’.
April 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
I’m calling this composition ‘A Penguin Through Magnolia’.
This garden really needs loads more Magnolia trees.
April 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This garden really needs loads more Magnolia trees.
One of the nicest things about UK bog-standard amenity planting is the tons and tons of plain old supermarket daffs we get every year. Fascinating and obscure botanical specimens are one thing, but I love simple run-of-the-mill daffodils in Spring.
March 31, 2025 at 10:20 AM
One of the nicest things about UK bog-standard amenity planting is the tons and tons of plain old supermarket daffs we get every year. Fascinating and obscure botanical specimens are one thing, but I love simple run-of-the-mill daffodils in Spring.
Dissertation in. All 75 bloody pages of it
March 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Dissertation in. All 75 bloody pages of it
Happy 'Remind your nearest American it's Paddy not fucking Patty's Day' Day
March 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Happy 'Remind your nearest American it's Paddy not fucking Patty's Day' Day
I'm giving a talk on the history and renovation of The Linn at this event at Cambo House on the 19th March, if anyone fancies coming along. discoverscottishgardens.org/scottish-gar...
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March 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I'm giving a talk on the history and renovation of The Linn at this event at Cambo House on the 19th March, if anyone fancies coming along. discoverscottishgardens.org/scottish-gar...
Arranging a 50th birthday surprise for someone who pathologically hates surprises is treading a very fine line between delight and a slow painful death.
February 28, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Arranging a 50th birthday surprise for someone who pathologically hates surprises is treading a very fine line between delight and a slow painful death.
We’ve spent the last ten days out Benmore Botanic Garden helping them clean up some of the devastation caused by Storm Eowyn. It’s been really satisfying work and really nice to help them out.
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The Linn Cleanup Team at Benmore Botanic Garden
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February 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
We’ve spent the last ten days out Benmore Botanic Garden helping them clean up some of the devastation caused by Storm Eowyn. It’s been really satisfying work and really nice to help them out.
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A little more info from one of our tree surgeons on the cleanup job we’ve been helping our pals at Benmore Botanic Garden with:
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February 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
A little more info from one of our tree surgeons on the cleanup job we’ve been helping our pals at Benmore Botanic Garden with:
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We’ve been out helping the team at Benmore Botanic Garden deal with the devastation caused by Storm Eowyn, and I took the opportunity of some toppled Monkey Puzzle trees to do some investigation of the trunk sections and root plates to see if I could learn anything new.
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Monkey Puzzle Puzzle: Opportunities From the Storm Damage at Benmore.
YouTube video by The Linn Botanic Garden
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February 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
We’ve been out helping the team at Benmore Botanic Garden deal with the devastation caused by Storm Eowyn, and I took the opportunity of some toppled Monkey Puzzle trees to do some investigation of the trunk sections and root plates to see if I could learn anything new.
youtu.be/1GNXK3GNe20?...
youtu.be/1GNXK3GNe20?...
My mum is from Manchester so I was raised a United fan. I’ve been a season ticket holder at Hibs for ten years, because we lived just down the road from the stadium in Leith. And now we’ve moved out west our local team is Dumbarton. Mind you, one of my best pals is a Montrose fan, so he’s happy.
February 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
My mum is from Manchester so I was raised a United fan. I’ve been a season ticket holder at Hibs for ten years, because we lived just down the road from the stadium in Leith. And now we’ve moved out west our local team is Dumbarton. Mind you, one of my best pals is a Montrose fan, so he’s happy.
Whilst this is a lovely thing to read, just for full disclosure, the Marxism may not be all that dedicated, well-informed, or profound. It may, if we’re being entirely honest with ourselves, be slightly more related to my instinct to wind up Tories by being a smart-arse.
Scotland 🏴 is just pure dead brilliant by the way. You know you’re in the best wee country on earth when, just for example, you discover your friend’s green-fingered offspring is working at a Marxist botanic garden 🌳❤️
BlueSky please show some love for The Linn Botanic Garden.
#Gardening #Saturday
BlueSky please show some love for The Linn Botanic Garden.
#Gardening #Saturday
Some nice ‘low winter sun’ pics as we prepare for the new year…
February 8, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Whilst this is a lovely thing to read, just for full disclosure, the Marxism may not be all that dedicated, well-informed, or profound. It may, if we’re being entirely honest with ourselves, be slightly more related to my instinct to wind up Tories by being a smart-arse.
A wee dissertation update as I head out to Kilmun Arboretum to see if any of their Monkey Puzzle trees are showing similar symptoms to those at Benmore…
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Monkey Puzzle Puzzle - Kilmum Arboretum Visit
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February 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
A wee dissertation update as I head out to Kilmun Arboretum to see if any of their Monkey Puzzle trees are showing similar symptoms to those at Benmore…
youtu.be/qCsAOTmS7ug?...
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Well folks, good it most certainly was not, but the infrastructure is intact and fortunately most of the stuff that came down didn’t take much else with it. I suppose it gives us the chance to replant with trees of known, recorded provenance.
January 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Well folks, good it most certainly was not, but the infrastructure is intact and fortunately most of the stuff that came down didn’t take much else with it. I suppose it gives us the chance to replant with trees of known, recorded provenance.
A quick intro to my honours dissertation: trying to find out why the Monkey Puzzle trees in Benmore Botanic Garden are so sick.
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The Monkey Puzzle Puzzle: an Introduction to my Honours Dissertation
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January 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
A quick intro to my honours dissertation: trying to find out why the Monkey Puzzle trees in Benmore Botanic Garden are so sick.
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My wife doesn’t know it yet, but she’s just hit the ‘you’re spending the rest of the night listening to The Tragically Hip’ barrier and this evening is only going downhill for her. I am very sorry, but not quite sorry enough.
January 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
My wife doesn’t know it yet, but she’s just hit the ‘you’re spending the rest of the night listening to The Tragically Hip’ barrier and this evening is only going downhill for her. I am very sorry, but not quite sorry enough.
Just watched the Star Wars Original Trilogy with The Boy, and he suggested watching the prequels. Made me think that actually the sequel trilogy has somehow achieved the hitherto-unimaginable feat of actually making those films look almost bearable by comparison.
January 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Just watched the Star Wars Original Trilogy with The Boy, and he suggested watching the prequels. Made me think that actually the sequel trilogy has somehow achieved the hitherto-unimaginable feat of actually making those films look almost bearable by comparison.
Some nice ‘low winter sun’ pics as we prepare for the new year…
January 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Some nice ‘low winter sun’ pics as we prepare for the new year…
Starting to regret not getting glasses sorted or a numerical keypad for the computer at this point. Hashtag data entry, science, etc…
January 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Starting to regret not getting glasses sorted or a numerical keypad for the computer at this point. Hashtag data entry, science, etc…
Happy Christmas folks.
December 24, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Happy Christmas folks.