At long last, my daughter had to go over to Italy last week due to her job. So she got me a proper translation of the italian article.
Here it is:
Scotland, inaugurated a new garden center dedicated to Rivendell. Reported on 16 April 2012. It was inaugurated in the Caithness, a county more to the north of the Scotland. The garden center is a little distant from the capital Wick, the site has a particularity: it is called "Rivendell". The name naturally is taken from the name of the "Last Comfortable House" in the Land-of-means invented by J. R. R. Tolkien. It is Big Ravine, the residence of Elrond, where the Elves still manage to live in balance with nature. And actual this is the purpose of Glyn and Benjamin Salisbury, father and son that have embarked on an enterprise of gardencare on the site of a ruined gasoline station called Lochshell. The inauguration of the new garden center, Saturday 14 April, was conducted by Lord John Thurso, elected member of parliament in the local district of Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross and third viscount of the capital Thurso.
Glyn Salisbury (to the center in the photography above) is a writer that has lived for years in the Scottish county with his wife, Sue, two daughters Jenny and Elizabeth, and his son Benjamin. The attractive northern coast of the county of Caithness is the background on which the acclaimed "Oscar", a thriller in which the thoughtless exploitation of the nature is at the center of a story that escalates from the gruesome discovery of the carcass of a sheep, on the shores close to Duncansby Head. Glyn Salisbury has a program to write a trilogy based on the Caithness Coast.
The project of the botanical garden center is a way to restore the natural balance to a site devastated by previous owners. "We chose this name", Glyn said, "because naturally we love The Lord of the Rings of J. R. R. Tolkien. Rivendell is a place of beauty just like our garden center.The house where we live in is called Bag End, like the house of Bilbo Baggins. We could not resist putting a green round door about 6 feet in diameter, complete with a yellow handle!".
The place completely is transformed: where first there was a gasoline pump in disuse and an unlawful dumping ground there is now a garden center, a coffee shop, a shop for the sale of gifts from local craftspeople. Glyn and Benjamin have working tirelessly with a very minimal budget and succeeded in realizing the garden center. But the two see it like a stage of a more ongoing project.
Rivendell should become, slowly, a mainstream gardencenter, with typical plants to survive in the Highlands and also some exotic examples. This is because, how it Tolkien writes: "Every tree has its enemy, little have a lawyer". A little later this week the website of the Rivendell garden center will also be live.
You go to the website at :
www.rivendellgardencenter.co.uk.
You can also go to the website of Glyn Salisbury at :
www.glynsalisbury.co.uk