The Scottish Rock Garden Club (SRGC) was founded in Edinburgh in 1933 to promote the cultivation of alpine and

rock garden A rock garden, also known as a rockery and formerly as a rockwork, is a garden, or more often a part of a garden, with a landscaping framework of rocks, stones, and gravel, with planting appropriate to this setting. Usually these are small A ...

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Dorothy Renton Dorothy Graham Renton (7 April 1898 – 28 January 1966) was a Scottish gardener noted for creating Branklyn Garden in Perth with her husband John. She took the Veitch Memorial Medal for her work in 1954 from the Royal Horticultural Society. Bran ...

Roland Edgar Cooper Roland Edgar Cooper FRSE FRSGS (16 June 1890 – 31 January 1962) was a British botanist and Curator of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh from 1936 to 1950. Within the Gardens the Roland Edgar Cooper Collection stems from his own work. A number ...

and others. The SRGC has meetings, conferences and talks, it publishes a journal and it organises seed exchanges. The registered charity has members in 38 countries. The SRGC is the largest Scottish horticultural society.

Founding members

was an Edinburgh-based botanist and curator of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. *

William Gregor MacKenzie William Gregor MacKenzie ALS VMH (1904–1995) was a gardener and horticultural curator born in Scotland, where his father was head gardener at Ballimore, near Loch Fyne in Argyllshire. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Aged 24, MacKenzie became a ...

went on to become curator of the Chelsea Physic Garden and was made honorary life president of the SRGC in 1994. *

and John Taylor Renton, horticulturalists responsible for the Branklyn Garden in Perth.

References

{{Reflist 1933 establishments in Scotland Gardening in Scotland