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Zoom link for those who can’t attend in person is available by contacting [email protected]. The Friends of Cruickshank Botanic Garden will be hosting their first live lecture of the year as part of the Noel Pritchard Memorial Lecture featuring Ken Cox from Glendoick. The talk includes stunning photos and video of the gardens at Glendoick, and will begin at 7:30pm in the Zoology Building lecture theatre.
About the talk: When Euan Cox accepted the invitation to go plant hunting in Burma with Reginald Farrer in 1919, the Cox rhododendron story began. Euan brought seeds back to Glendoick and the woodland garden was created in the 1920s
This talk covers the development of the gardens at Glendoick and alongside them, the specialist rhododendron and azalea nursery, founded in 1953.
Peter and Kenneth Cox are the UK's major rhododendron breeders and the talk covers the rhododendron and azalea hybrids raised at Glendoick, including the birds series of dwarf rhododendrons and the more recent work on cultivars with coloured foliage.
Peter and Kenneth Cox made over 30 expeditions to China and the Himalaya and the talk coveres some of their plant hunting adventures and the best plants introduced from their travels.
A glossy paperback booklet, Glendoick Centenary, accompanies the talk and is available for purchase.
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University of Aberdeen - School of Biological Sciences, Zoology Building, Tillydrone Avenue, Aberdeen, United Kingdom