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Summer<br />
During the summer months Riverside Park<br />
boasts a wide range of colourful flowers, shrubs<br />
and wildflowers. In Rodney Gardens, adjacent<br />
to the heather garden, the Riverside Project<br />
is recreating the original 1990s plan for the<br />
semi-circular flower beds in front of the Rodney<br />
Pavilion.<br />
Heather Highlights (see centre pages for map of heather beds)<br />
From July to September, Erica cinera “Pallas”<br />
has purple flowers on pale green foliage (bed 5).<br />
Calluna vulgaris “Bonfire Brilliance” is another<br />
lovely plant, with mauve flowers in August and<br />
September. Its foliage is bronze in summer<br />
turning fiery red in winter (bed 11).<br />
Art trail<br />
‘Millais’ Viewpoint’ is an art installation by Tim<br />
Shutter. Carved from St Bees sandstone, it<br />
represents a favourite view of artist John Everett<br />
Millais who had strong family links with Perth. His<br />
wife Effie Gray is buried in Kinnoull graveyard.<br />
Heather in history<br />
At the Skara Brae ancient settlement in Orkney,<br />
archaeologists discovered beds made from stone<br />
slabs and lined with heather, dating from as far<br />
back as 2000BC. In later centuries buildings in<br />
the Highlands had walls made from stone, with<br />
‘heather and daub’ – a combination of heather<br />
and mud or clay, with cavities filled by heather<br />
divots. Heather also provided a basis for Scottish<br />
tartans; natural dyes made from heather were<br />
used to create the colours of wool and cloth used<br />
for clothing.
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