The Kinness Burn is a 5 + 3 ⁄ 4 miles (9.5 kilometres) long burn (stream) in Fife , Scotland . It flows into the North Sea through the inner harbour of St Andrews on the east coast of Fife. The name of the village of Strathkinness , located 3 miles west of St Andrews, means the valley ( strath ) of the Kinness. The source of the burn is on a low Clatto hill to the west of Strathkinness, near the village of Blebocraigs .
4-705: The St Andrews Botanic Garden is located on the banks of the Kinness Burn. The Fife Pilgrim Way follows the Kinness Burn for about a mile within St Andrews, where it joins the Lade Braes Walk . This article related to a river in Scotland is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . St Andrews Botanic Garden 56°20′05″N 2°48′24″W / 56.3346°N 2.8066°W / 56.3346; -2.8066 The St Andrews Botanic Garden
8-472: A large rockery and a series of ponds. There are also vegetable and herb gardens, and two large greenhouses. There are borders that specialise in Chinese and Chilean flora, containing both woody and herbaceous specimens.to recreate the full environment of those parts of the world. There are significant collections of Cotoneaster , Berberis and Sorbus . The gardens also house an algal herbarium based on
12-763: Is an 18-acre botanical garden in the university town of St Andrews in Fife , Scotland . It is located on the banks of the wooded Kinness Burn in the Canongate area, on the southern edge of the town. The gardens are supported by the University of St Andrews and Fife Council , and by admission charges. The garden is included on the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland . It contains more than 8000 species of native and exotic plants. These are laid out in zones of woodland, meadow, shrubbery, herbaceous bedding, sand dunes,
16-650: The collection of seaweed specimens gathered originally by the phycologist Margaret Gatty (1809-1873) and enlarged since her death. The gardens were founded by the University of St Andrews in 1889 on a different site within the grounds of St Mary's College. The principal founder was the botanist Dr John Hardie Wilson. The early site consisted of 78 similar beds laid out according to the Bentham and Hooker system of plant classification. The valuable town centre site grew in size from 0.1 to 2.8 hectares (0.25 to 6.92 acres), and in
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