EDINBURGH’S FREE LOCAL NEWSPAPER...A CAPITAL READ FROM START TO FINISH
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’