#Dunkeld

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Plant of the Day

Sunday 21 April 2024

In this community garden in Dunkeld, Scotland, the Muscari latifolium (broad-leaved grape hyacinth) was creating a display. This perennial has a single leaf to each bulb, with deep blue-black flowers, topped by a crown of pale sterile flowers.

Jill Raggett

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Dunkeld, Perthshire

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The Hermitage, Craigvinean Forest, Perthshire, Scotland

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Dunkeld, Scotland

August 2024

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A couple of weeks ago we visited the little town of Dunkeld in Perthshire in Scotland - it's a lovely little place and also home to a fantastic bakery by a former Great British Bakeoff contestant! 😂 Dunkeld is probably most famous for it's beautiful nature walks though, in particular The Hermitage walk which takes in the very impressive Black Linn waterfall! 😍 We managed to catch the last of the autumnal beauty before this week's snow came! 😂 Hope you enjoy!

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92-2813 - River Tay nap

On our first day in Dunkeld (before checking in to our hotel and after our lunch) we visited Dunkeld Cathedral and then sat by the river with this glorious view of the bridge over the river Tay. This bridge was built between 1805 and 1809 by Thomas Telford – a Scottish engineer most famous for a cast iron arch bridge that crosses the River Severn in Shropshire. After checking into to our hotel we…

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The Hermitage Woodland Walk

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Friday 19 April 2024

In the shade of a woodland garden the Anemone blanda (winter windflower, Balkan anemone) were flowering. The flowers are an intense blue, but the species can produce shades of pink and white. This spreading perennial here contrasts with the silver evergreen foliage of Lamium maculatum 'Beacon Silver' (spotted deadnettle).

Jill Raggett

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Headstones in the grounds of Dunkeld Cathedral, Perthshire

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A cold day at @newtylesalmon today. Fire was welcomed by the non angler guest. She enjoyed a walk to the Birnam Oak which is a 15 minute walk from the fishing hut, through a lovely avenue of birch trees beside the river. . . . . #rivertay #salmonfishing #newtylesalmonfishing #albagamefishing #macbeth #birnamoak #dunkeld #perthshire #bigtreecountry #fatherandson (at River Tay) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cr1JOmOtPFD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Scotland, Perthshire

August 2024

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Princesses of Scotland + foreign marriages

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by Kyle Bonallo (ig: @kylebonallo)

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On March 20th 1141 King Malcolm IV was born, possibly in Forfar. Malcolm IV was crowned 27 May 1153 at Scone at age twelve. He was a pious young man and very interested in chivalry and warfare. He also had Anglo-Norman tastes which did not endear him to the Scottish people and he had to face a number of uprisings during his reign. He became known as Malcolm the Maiden partly because of his vow of celibacy. Malcolm held the earldom of Northumbria and paid homage to King Henry II of England for his lands there. In 1157 he surrendered his northern English counties in return for the earldom of Huntingdon. It was a bad deal for the Scottish king but he desperately wanted to be knighted by Henry II and perhaps feared a war. In 1159 Malcolm accompanied the English king to France and took part in the siege of Toulouse an act for which he was finally knighted. However upon returning home in 1160 the king had to face a revolt which ended with him subduing Galloway. He then turned his attention to Moray in the north and finally to the King of the Isles, Somerled in the west. It seems many of the Scottish nobles were irritated by his neglect of the kingdom and angered by his deference to the English king. Malcolm was only twenty-four when he died, apparently of natural causes, in 1165 and he left no heirs. He was buried in Dunfermline Abbey and was succeeded by his brother William. The pic shows detail from the charter of Malcolm IV, King of Scotland to Kelso Abbey and shows Malcolm sitting to the right of his Grandfather King David I. 

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Perthshire forest, Dunkeld, Scotland

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