Gnome-loving Thurso activist says 'adopt a rose' By David G Scott | Updated: 10:41, 09 March 2021 Get the Courier and Groat sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper A community activist has been helping transform Thurso's town centre with a major flower-planting initiative and hopes that local people will support his Adopt a Rose campaign. Alexander Glasgow, along with some help from a few other green-fingered locals, put the finishing touches to rose gardens at Olrig Street and Riverside Road â largely funded by local man Roger Broughton. Self-confessed gnome fan, Alexander, said: "Planting is finished with almost 100 heeled-in with topsoil to their new homes and all look healthy.