A Blush for a Lady: Neoregelia Carolinae in Glasgow, Scotland

            Caroline Morren in 1856 must have been very pleased. The wife of the authority on Bromeliads Charles Jacques Édouard Morren (1833-1886) - the director of the botanical garden of Liège, Belgium, with the largest collection of Bromeliads in the world -, her husband's friend, the German botanist Johann Georg Beer (1803-1873), had just returned from South America. There  in Brazil, not far from Rio de Janeiro, he had found this particularly beautiful Bromeliad, and he named it after her: Neoregelia Carolinae. We know it today as the Blushing Bromeliad, turning red just before it flowers. 
Thirty years later, when Morren had died, his widow sold his manuscripts and herbaria to the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. Thus she stimulated far-reaching research into Bromeliads by the English. It is indeed fitting that one of these marvellous plants was named for her!
This particular beauty was seen in the Glasgow Botanic Garden. First established in 1817 at the western end of Sauchiehall Street, it was soon moved to a pretty site on the banks of the Kelvin River. Its enormous and wonderful glass house was built by John Kibble in the 1860s at Loch Long. But in 1872 it was moved by barge to the present place.  It is affectionately - and rightly - called Kibble's Palace. Just restored it is a most wondrous place.
Moreover, it is a good shelter from the cloud bursts we experienced at the weekend in Glasgow. We desisted in descending the valley gorge to see the Kelvin and took a bus instead to the art galleries of Kelvingrove!
   

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Taken on: September 6, 2008

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