Local knowledge From: The Scotsman | Date: June 7, 2008| Author: | Copyright 2008 The Scotsman. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

IMAGINE IF YOU were to head off on a tour of Scotland, stopping to chat with the country's garden experts at every town along the way. You could find out which trees stand up to the wind in Shetland, which climbers will survive on a north-facing wall and even which plants are widely offered for sale in Scotland but should be left on the shelf.

Sadly, most of us don't have the time, resources or contacts to take such a trip, but the good news is that two men have done it for us. Glendoick Gardens managing director Kenneth Cox and garden designer Raoul Curtis-Machin have produced Garden Plants ...

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