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When the clocks change and the daylight hours shorten and cold, wet weather sets-in, the garden can look drab and untidy, so pull out all those annual bedding plants that […]

Congratulations to Jennifer Campbell for achieving her Grow and Learn ‘Roots’  Award. Jennifer works with the Teensplus group at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and was delighted [...]

Grow and Learn in Nature (GLiN) – Saughton Park It all started when The Caley secured Scottish National Heritage funding to help develop the Grow and Learn in Nature award. […]

Ellon Academy, Aberdeenshire  Pupils were thrilled to welcome  former Caley Honorary President, Jim McColl from the BBC ‘Beechgrove’ programme,  back to the school garden to see the fruits of [...]

The plan for today didn’t happen as we found a tunnel in the compost heap and ended up clearing out the heap and found the cause – a family of […]

This workshop is part of our next Saughton Sunday event on 3rd November 2019. “Plants for Free – Hardwood Cuttings” – a practical workshop led by Colin Ainsworth. We are [...]

We have had an unusual amount of fungi in the garden, probably because we have had a wet summer and autumn.  Easily the most exciting is the Fly Agaric, or […]

A chilly start again but there was plenty of hard work to keep us warm. The weeding of the beds continues and the clearance of the comfrey bed where the […]

A chilly day on the allotment but no rain so we were able to get all the work done starting with the planting of the onion sets. These will be […]

The cold nights of the last few days have finished the courgettes and squashes.  The sweetcorn has finished cropping and we have done well this year with cobs and the […]