Tour Scotland Video Royal Visit Crieff Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a Royal visit to Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Poppies Branklyn Garden Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Poppies on visit to Branklyn Garden in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Meconopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Papaveraceae. It was first described by French botanist Viguier in 1814 who named it as poppy like. The species have attractive flowers and have two distinct ranges. A single species, Meconopsis cambrica, poppy of Wales, is indigenous to England, Wales, Ireland, and the fringes of Western Europe, although recent studies suggest that it does not belong in the genus. The other 40 or so species are found in the Himalayas. Within the Himalayan types there is much debate as to what constitutes a particular species as many readily hybridise with each other and produce viable seed. It is likely that some individually named species are in fact a single species but with an under-appreciated morphological diversity.

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Tour Scotland Video May Walk Branklyn Garden Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a May walk on visit to Branklyn Garden in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This excellent Scottish garden has a superb collection of rhododendrons, alpines, and herbaceous and peat‑garden plants and Himalayan blue poppy.

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Old Photograph Pitcorthie House Scotland

Old photograph of Pitcorthie House located North of Pittenweem, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. A Georgian Neo-Classical mansion of ashlar construction with four bays either side of the entrance with single storey wings. The entrance lay behind a massive full height Doric collonade portico and was the residence of George Simson Esq. who died at Pitcorthie on 7 July 1848 age 82. This Scottish mansion house is particularly similar in style to both Camperdown House in Dundee, designed by William Burn, and Balbirnie house in Markinch, designed by Richard Crighton, both fine estates, which had family connections to the Simsons. Early in 1901 Andrew Grant Member of Parliament took over Pitcorthie. died at Pitcorthie House, on 23rd October 1924.




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Tour Scotland Video Heavy Rain Falling On Garden Outside Cottage In Scone By Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of heavy rain falling on the garden outside my cottage in Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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