So many Scottish gardeners south to the Sassanach that the two are almost synonymous. Indeed James Boswell, himself a Scotsman, tells in his biography Life of Johnson, his subject once pungently pointed out, “The noblest prospect a Scotsman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England.”
Many a Scottish plantsman made their mark there, so much so their names are commemorated botanically. William Forsythia (1737-1804), supervisor of Kensington Palace gardens is remembered in Forsythia. James Thomas Mackay (1775-1862) botanist and gardener lent his name to Mackaya. And of course, one can hardly turn in the garden without encountering a plant named after collector Robert Fortune.
Thomas Blaikie was not so blessed botanically. Obeying Samuel Johnson’s dictum, he rode the road to England, only to be dispatched to collect and record rare species in the Alps during 1775 and 1776, the year of the American Revolution. It was a long way from his birthplace of Corstophine Hill, then just outside Edinburgh.
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