Scotland Magazine section Scotland Trivia

50 Things You Never Knew about Scotland

ED PEARCE ENLIGHTENS US ALL

1. Aberdeen has won the ‘Britain in Bloom’ competition 11 times and the overall ‘Scotland in Bloom’ competition an unprecedented 39 times in a row. At one point after winning a period of nine years straight, Aberdeen was banned from the Britain in Bloom competition in order to give another city a ch...

By Ed Pearce from Issue 36 published on 14/12/2007