Royal gardener Richard Baines has been named as the 60-year-old who died after being hit by a falling tree in Dumfries and Galloway during Storm Boelo.
The long-serving curator at Logan Botanic Garden, which he dubbed Scotland’s most exotic garden, was walking near his home on Sunday when he was struck.
The garden in Port Logan, which is operated as part of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh‘s Living Collection, paid tribute to their ‘very genuine and warm’ curator who was the victim of the ‘tragic accident’.
‘Desperately sad, devastated’ colleagues said it was ‘his passion and enthusiasm for plants’ that Mr Baines will
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