After the climbers and creepers at Duthie park you can duck out and look at the japanese peace garden... hmm... built to commerate (is that the right word?)... recognise the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bomb. Hmm... there used to be a japanses garden on the other side of the corridor which was much nicer. It may still be there - we only had a quick visit last time because it was the enmd of the day and my parents were a bit on the tired side after they had trapsed around Aberdeen and going into a zillion and one charity shops. Oh yeah a quick visit so I didn't really have chance to have a good brows like I normallydo.this may not even be the commerative garden. If it is there is another interpretation of Japanese culture that does nothing for me (like the bonsais from a few days ago.) In my eyes this looks more like weirmacht and plaine concrete than it does Japanese. There used to be a parrot and chickens, and pheasants out this side of the corridor but no more.
Anyhow after this disappointment I went back into the cooler corridor with perennial bedding plants of begonias and pelagoniums (not geraniums note) - much more my style although the only flower which really caught my eye was a dark pelagonium. It looked much nicer close up and was actually quite unimpressive en-masse. Bedding plants are usually the other way round - nice en masse but unremarkable close up.
See what you think.
After the cooler corridor there is the Victorian corridor which has been recently restored but which I have already posted about so I won't linger this time. The piece-de-resistance is then coming - the Cactus house.
