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The annual Autumn Plant Sale at Inch Nurseries will take place from Saturday 13th October to Friday 19th October – times 10am – 2pm. On sale will be: polyanthus, pansies, violas, [...]

These days many folks have their beliefs emblazoned on their tee shirts. My husband Kevin proclaims on his sturdy chest that ‘Old men are cool’ and his latest favourite, a joy in blue, states [...]

This year’s bulb workshop will take place at the Caley Demonstration Allotment on 20th October.  Start time is 10am.  Thanks to a generous discount from our bulb supplier, Scamp’s [...]

Our intrepid reporter has been on his travels again.  This time we sent him over the water to Fife.  I’m pleased to report he made it back safely and sent us some lovely images of the show. [...]

Here are a few images from the East Lothian Horticultural Society Show earlier this month.  All images are courtesy of Garry Menzies.    

The Caley’s Winter Lecture series starts on Tuesday 2nd October with Ken Cox – “Woodland Gardening”.  This is a joint lecture with Scottish Rock Garden Club. All Caley [...]

After the storm of last Wednesday, we had yet another day of repairing the damage on the allotment. One of the posts holding the willow windbreak had snapped so it had a ‘splint’ put [...]

Thursday was a day for emergency repairs as the strong winds had snapped at ground level two of the supporting posts for the espalier apples. With the trees in full fruit it was only possible to [...]

He’s a very busy man!  Our intrepid reporter Stan has been out and about again this weekend.  I have to confess that we are probably slightly biased in the reporting of the Dalkeith Show.  [...]

The best crop ever from the plum tree as you can see from the photograph and there are even more on the side. All the plums were taken off the tree and the slightly less ripe ones will go to jam [...]