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RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch 2024

A big thankyou to our wildlife loving volunteer, Lesley, for taking the time to record all the visitors to our beautiful Rodney Garden as part of the national Read article...

A Talk about the Heather Garden

1 March 2023
Later this month we're giving a talk to the 'Horti' (the Royal Horticultural Society of Perthshire) about our work, including at the lovely heather garden in Riverside Park and the collection of the heather 'Erica Carnea' which has recently been awarded National ...

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More National Awards for Riverside Park!

30 November 2022
Two public gardens in the heart of Perth have achieved success in the 2022 Beautiful Scotland Awards. The Heather Garden and the Compassionate Friends Garden, both in Riverside Park, have been awarded the top rating of ‘Outstanding’ in this year’s It’s Your Neighbourhood competition.

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Riverside Park visit

9 May 2022
On Saturday we were honoured to welcome visitors from The Compassionate Friends UK to Riverside Park for the first time since 2019. They spent some time in the remembrance garden we have created with them in a quiet section of the Park. We then joined together to celebrate the unveiling of a new sculpture that we commissioned from Scottish blacksmith Kev Paxton, ...

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Queen's Green Canopy

14 March 2022
The Queen’s Green Canopy is a national tree planting project, created to mark Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022, which invites people from across the United Kingdom to “Plant a Tree for the Jubilee”. Beautiful Perth volunteers were keen to take part in the ...

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History of The Perth Nursery - book now on sale

21 October 2021
A new book about the historic plant nursery that operated in Perth from the 18th century has been published by Tippermuir Books. Written and researched by two Beautiful Perth volunteers, Elspeth Bruce and Pat Kerr, the book describes how the nursery was establised on the banks of the Tay in 1767 by James Dickson, whose notable clients included the then Duke ...

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