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Those attending the Caley show will know that daffodil enthusiasts organise their flowers into  13 divisions; all are shown on the back of the show schedule. Tulip growers use 15 divisions and [...]

Here is a new way to show a series of photos. I took 70 while helping to set up the show. Microsoft has an application called ‘photosynth’ that allows a sequence of photos to be [...]

Caley Spring show open today (Sunday) in the Fletcher Building, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, from 11.00 to 16.00. Award Ceremony starts at 16.00.

It has just struck me that whilst most people will come to the blog from the main website there may be those who are not familiar with the Caley’s main website (https://thecaley.org.uk/) [...]

This little blog seems to be gathering some interest. In the last month it has been viewed by people from around the world, including the USA, Brazil and Japan.  Unfortunately it would seem that [...]

A view of the show in the town’s Corn Exchange last Sunday – 18th March – kindly supplied by Douglas Bober. Entries were up on 2011.

I suspect that some Caley members will have been to the Haddington show this weekend.  (I wasn’t there.  Were you?)

One week to go to the show and my bulbs seem to have come to a halt!And plants for the pallet  are refusing to flower! Fingers crossed!  

I have been trying to hold some of my pots back and encourage a few others to get a move on because it really is only a few days now, a fact that was reinforced when I opened the post to find a [...]

Some people have pots of bulbs they think may be over by the [...]