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Oct 22, 2026

Caroline BaveyGUEST
7:12
We've got some beautiful oak leaf hydrangeas that were discovered by John Fraser and that's in one of our North American glades.
Caroline BaveyGUEST
7:19
We've got an amazing plant, Sisybeta alpina, and that's a discovery by George Don in the Scottish mountains.
Caroline BaveyGUEST
7:27
And what's really special about that plant, it absolutely loves growing here in the explorer's garden, but the Royal Botanics at the minute are actually rewilding and getting that plant back out into its natural habitat because it's on the red list, it's endangered.
Caroline BaveyGUEST
7:44
And they've started that over the last year or so.
Caroline BaveyGUEST
7:47
So that's really quite special because that link is linked to our garden and to George Don.
Caroline BaveyGUEST
7:52
So that's a really special plant.
Caroline BaveyGUEST
7:54
We've got plants like the red-hot pokus and the agapanthus, which Francis Matheson went out to South Africa and was like part of his discoveries.

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