North American Rock Garden Society (Piedmont Chapter) Lecture: "The Gardens of Scotland"
Date and Time
- Saturday, Oct 11, 2025 10am - 11:30am
Location
Ruby C. McSwain Education Center, JC Raulston Arboretum at NC State University, 4415 Beryl Road, Raleigh, NC 27606.
Details
Julia Corden is a past president of the Scottish Rock Garden Club and an acclaimed international speaker from West Sussex, England. Julia will take us through some of the finest public and private gardens of Scotland, including a visit to the renown Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, with its magnificent old rock garden. She will show us the Explorers Garden in Pitlochry, Scotland, where she was manager for 18 years. The diversity of plants that are grown in Scottish gardens will amaze you. Julia, with her keen knowledge of plants and gardens, will wow us with photographs of the wide diversity of gardening in Scotland. Her passion for horticulture, especially alpine and rock garden plants, will be obvious in her lecture.