Talk - Walk - Talk Winter Gardens, Aberdeen April 2025
Talk-Walk-Talk is a UK-wide initiative organised by the Royal Photographic Society’s Landscape and Digital Imaging groups.
The Talk-Walk-Talk topic for Spring 2025 was ‘Parks and Gardens’. Events were arranged across the UK. In Aberdeen, Royal Photographic Society member Ian Booth led a group of photographers on a visit to the Winter Gardens in the City’s Duthie Park.
Duthie Park was opened in 1883 after it was gifted to the city by Miss Elizabeth Crombie Duthie in 1880 for the 'wellbeing and recreation of Aberdeen residents'. The park is noted for the David Welch Winter Gardens, one of Europe’s largest indoor gardens, with tropical and arid houses which contain the second largest collections of bromeliads and of giant cacti respectively in Great Britain (second to the Eden Project in Cornwall). Originally opened in 1899, the greenhouses had to be demolished and rebuilt after suffering storm damage in 1969.
The Japanese Garden is an outdoor area of the Winter Gardens, opened in 1987 to commemorate the dead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
