November 25th Photograph Rainbow Scotland

November 25th photograph of a Scottish rainbow over Scone, Perthshire, Scotland. The clock is part of the Robert Douglas Memorial School in Scone. Scone is well known as the crowning place of the kings and queens of Scotland including Robert the Bruce. Scone Palace still has the Moot Hill or Boot Hill where highland chiefs swore allegiance kneeling on their own land, or a handful of earth carried in a cloth placed in their boot. Scone is also the birthplace of the famous botanist David Douglas after whom is named the Douglas Fir and who introduced a massive range of flora and fauna to the British Isles. It was also the home to Robert Douglas after whom the school is named.


November 25th photograph of a Scottish rainbow over Scone, Perthshire, Scotland.


November 25th photograph of a Scottish rainbow over Scone, Perthshire, Scotland.


November 25th photograph of a Scottish rainbow over Scone, Perthshire, Scotland.

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The Tree Collector: The Life and Explorations of David Douglas. David Douglas was one of the most important botanical collectors there has ever been. Thanks to his heroic and often unimaginably arduous explorations, during which he collected and discovered over 200 species, our forests and gardens are immeasurably richer. Not only is the Douglas fir named after him, but also many of our most established conifers, like the Sitka spruce, Grand and Noble firs and the Monterey pine were introduced to Britain by him. Modern-day suburban gardens would be without the flowering currant, lupin, penstemon, alpines, lilies and primroses had Douglas not travelled so widely. He grew up on the Scone Estate near Perth, studied at the Botanical Gardens in Glasgow under William Hooker, the greatest botanist of the nineteenth century, and then made his name through his remarkable excursions to western Canada - once walking nearly 10,000 miles between the Pacific coast and Hudson Bay. His premature death at just 35 was in keeping with the rest of his life, falling into a wild-animal trap in Hawaii. The Tree Collector: The Life and Explorations of David Douglas.

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