Plant Hunters Galore!!

Excellent blog...
... and I think the bull pushed poor Douglas into the pit .....;o)

Yes TT I think your right ! Good blog Flori, very interesting thank you.

That's two votes for the bull ....;o)

Could have been chased by a pit bull :)))

Ha Ha. Very good Aster, Ha Ha

Wonderful Flori, Blog and photo !

Thank you all! I'm not sure, Terra and Cinders, as it was said that after his body was discovered, they found inflicted knife wounds on him, either a very anti-social Bull with an attitude problem, or Douglas was murdered by his guide who stole his money and disposed of the body into the pit! Mind you, Aster, there are some pit bulls out there deserving Asbo's that could fit the bill, or should that be bull?! LOL! Thank you for all your great comments, and all so fast as well!! I have to be good, cos my college tutor has now discovered Goy, and is checking out these blogs too, (gulp!) :~))

We had a lecture on David Douglas at one of our garden club meetings - it was very interesting!! He was quite the fellow - he discovered so many plants by such a young age!! Quite remarkable.

Thank you Flori,we do take a lot of plants for granted.I'm sure many people think they are native to this country.

Hi G/nut, thank you for your comment~he added about 240 species of plants to Britain which is outstandingly impressive, and was responsible for introducing so many of our Conifers to the UK~to meet such a dreadful end at so young an age was tragic indeed! :~(( Aster, I know I certainly thought that~this Garden History Course has been a total eye opener to me! Am really glad you have enjoyed this blog :~))

Excellent ! An other good interesting read. Thank you.
There are so many people in history to whom we can be grateful for the way our world is today

I salute them too.
And u for ur blog.
Lovely tree.

Lovely to hear from you Hywel, my friend and Angie! This has been a terrific learning curve for me, and if you lovely Goyers has gained from it too, then I am one happy lady~thank you for your comments, they are always warmly received :~))

great and interesting blog flori, your becomming a mind of information my friend, great stuff, love the hankerchief tree to ;o)))

I loved it too Flori,as I find all History fascinating.but especially this...being a self confessed gardening nut.!! You are so right,we can only wonder at the things they would have had to contend with,strange countries,the native people,diseases,etc,etc..It must have been so scary,but they were so brave to endure all this,for a love of plants...I salute them too..

Thanks Flori, it's good to know some of the history behind our favourite plants, I feel it adds to their enjoyment. :-)

Thank you, San....Bloomer and Muddy, for all your lovely comments. Glad to know that you are still enjoying my history blogs....this one was somewhat delayed but hoping to get another on tomorrow or early next week! This wonderful tree is in a National Trust garden in the next village to mine, that has taken me 27 years to visit! I hang my head in shame!!!

its always the way when things are on your doorstep flori, lots of places near me i havent been ;o(

This place is called the best kept Secret Garden in the West, and although only 7 acres, it is beautful, and I hope to do a blog on it very soon, San!x

look forward to seeing that flori ;o) x

Will do my best now that college is out of the way! :~))x

;o))) x

sounds good,Flori,that will be something to look forward to:o))

Great blog flo a lovely read quite cheered me up the Tradescanthia was the very first house plant I had and called it Laura ?????????? I used to wash its leaves with milk mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Hello there, Redsong! Glad you have enjoyed it, it has proved to be an absolute eye opener to me too! I have so enjoyed this course! Next installment on it's way soon........... :~))

Hi Flori, thanks for the lecture!
The best kept Secret Garden in the West sounds very interesting. I'm looking forward to your blog about it :) Pleeeease~~~Flori~~

Lecture Tommy? This is suppose to be lighthearted nuggets of info! LOL! Will get blog sorted out and posted I promise. You can look it up on the internet, google The Courts Gardens,Holt, Wiltshire, and it should come up, and it is national trust too, so you could check on their site as well.

Haha, loved the bit about Douglas, made me laugh :P Poor sod :S

Yes, Jenny, he wasn't a very lucky man in one way or another! If I remember rightly, on one of his travels, his boat capsized and he lost a lot of his notes and plants in the river, and on another occasion, he woke to find he had been robbed! I guess that Bull pit incident was the last in a long line of catastrophic circumstances....

If only poor old Douglas had discovered 'lucky' Heather,instead of a Fir tree..
things could have been so much different...ah,well...that's life..or not,in his case.
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Ha ha ha, Bloomer! He did achieve an awful lot in his short time here on Earth, but lucky, this poor guy wasn't.....! He seemed to court disaster where ever he went, yet we have a lot to be grateful to him for....So next time you happen to be walking in an area where there is a Bull pit, (probably not too many of those in Yorkshire, come to think of it lol!), give it a wide wide berth my friend....Tee hee hee! :~))
Ps, are you joining us on janey's road trip by the way?lol! Check out her latest blog when you get a chance......

o dear talk bt bad luk ,still i think we are the lucky ones. to have all the lovely plants , and very lucky to have you to tell us bt them flori. anther brill blog thanks hun. you bin busy . have u herd if u passed ur xsam yet .i have finggers x 4 you.xx

Another enjoyable blog Flori, poor old Doulglas sounds like a man after my own heart. What a funny expression when written:-)

Hi Cristina, no, I won't hear till closer to christmas or early January as to whether I have passed or not! My last exam took 6 months too, before we heard of the results! Glad you enjoyed the blog, another one coming this week!
Glad you enjoyed Ba! Thanks for your lovely comments! :~))xxx

Fascinating flori!!!

Thanks Pip....am so behind on my next blog, but it isn't forgotten, just side lined at the mo!

"ve just spent a bit of time reading throughall your garden histroy blogs, fascinating and well odne :o)

Oh Pip, that is sweet of you...and there is more to come...just on back burner at mo, cos you lot keep distracting me....lol!

Great blog Flori. We must not forget our present day plant hunters. We are lucky to be able to visit Glendoick in Perthshire where Peter Cox is available to speak to visitors on Open Days. I was privileged to meet him and chat with him about my garden and got lots of good advice. He was so enthusiastic about his plants and so very just one of us that he was easy to talk to. You can find out more about this family of plantaholics on their web site at the following link. http://www.glendoick.com/index.php?page=employment

Wow, thank you Scotsgran! And thank you for visiting my blog...I will be checking your link out asap, but thank you so much for passing it on to me. :~))

I will too:-)