The Edinburgh Reporter May 2023

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May 2023

Tickets please Swimming snaps Signing off Where now? Fond farewell

Newhaven trams within

touching distance

Juliet files her final foray

into Edinburgh food

Nicola Benedetti asks big

Festival question

The treasure at end of

Teresa’s rainbow

Tributes paid to lifelong

Hibby ‘Big Frank’

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New avenue

becomes royal

memorial

By PHYLLIS STEPHEN

NATURE IS waking up with blossom

coming out particularly at Lauriston

Castle where Westies, Ellie (7) and

Brodie (10) posed for our photo.There

are pockets of pink and white

displays, but one of our favourite

places is in the Botanics where the

seasons are obvious.

A visit to the Botanics is always

uplifting but even more so with some

new trees planted there. There is a

new avenue of cherry trees - called

Sakura Avenue - which

commemorates Queen Elizabeth’s

70-year reign. Last year pupils from

Pilrig Park School helped to plant the

contribution to the Queen’s Green

Canopy and the trees are now in full

bloom. The creation of the avenue

was the idea of the Arboriculture

Supervisor at Royal Botanic Garden

Edinburgh (RGBE), William

Hinchcliffe who said: “The species of

flowering cherry we have selected is

Prunus x yedoensis, the Yoshino

cherry, which – with slightly fragrant

white or pink flowers - is not only one

of the most beautiful Japanese

cherries but also one of the most

reliably floriferous in Edinburgh.”

Regius Keeper Simon Milne, MBE,

observed that the trees were planted

for the Platinum Jubilee, but became

a memorial to Her late Majesty.

He said: “An avenue in the heart of

the Garden cannot fail to attract

attention and direct visitors towards

the conservation plantings from

Japan, highlighting our international

plant science and conservation

horticulture partnerships.”

beautiful

Bloomin’