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By gardenpoets I’m trying not to think about the future because that, for me, that involves leaving Benmore. However, Benmore has to be constantly looking forward. I’m afraid…
By gardenpoets Not that you can tell the time from the Benmore sundial because today the cloud is dark and low and the rain is a terrier… a wall…
By gardenpoets A week or so ago Billy (pictured on the right in the cap) said he’d got three lines of his tree-themed poem but was waiting for…
By gardenpoets Most people have paperclips and piles of paper by their photocopier. We have a microscope and a crate full of moss and lichen samples. I’d like to…
By gardenpoets For the last three weeks or so I’ve been encouraging everyone to get creative and write tree-themed poems to help us celebrate the 150th anniversary of…
By gardenpoets Thanks to David for the following poem, which he literally handed to me written on the back of an envelope. That’s a phrase that gets used so often…
By gardenpoets Despite the ferocity of the midges at Benmore yesterday (a statement than should win a prize for the understatement of the week), I had a lovely time…
By gardenpoets Midsummer Day in Scotland must be an excuse, if any excuse is ever needed, for some of William Dunbar’s poetry. So sit back and enjoy…. …
By gardenpoets What is it about the Formal Garden at Benmore, combined with some sunshine, that makes children want to turn cartwheels and do handstands? I suspect it’s…
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2013 sees a very special partnership between the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) and the Scottish Poetry Library. From June to September, each RBGE Garden will host its…
By gardenpoets This morning as I was getting ready to venture out into the garden I was given some midge repellent to apply. On the packaging it said:…
By gardenpoets Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley’d & thunder’d; Storm’d at with shot and shell Alfred, Lord…