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Unfortunately, this event has been cancelled A summer morning wildflower walk at Holyrood Park, led by Stan da Prato. It’s a gentle walk into the main grassland at Hunters Bog.  Our [...]

The bright yellow flowers of oilseed rape have become a familiar sight in early summer. The plant is a brassica (cabbage family) and its name, rape, comes from the Latin […]

Thursday was a day mostly spent on weeding the fruit and vegetable beds; we needed to water since there has been no rain (update: there has been rain since then!) […]

Cacti and succulents has always featured in a Caley show but when we were planning the move to our base Saughton we decided to separate it from the main show […]

The team at Falkland Gardening Group this year are, for the first time, having an Open Gardens event. This is to help raise funds and to showcase the horticulture activities […]

Anna has sent us the latest update from her lovely Edinburgh garden, Redcroft.   If you are looking for inspiration for your own garden, it is full of planting ideas that […]

It was a warm and sunny day on Thursday and the priority was netting the soft fruit – not an easy job when the saskatoon is about 2m tall.  The […]

Many of us have treasured plants in our gardens which are living memories.  My ‘Mossmoran’ paeony was rescued by my husband from the farmhouse garden just before it was bulldozed […]

Now we are in the middle of June, it is time to get the rest of the tender veg planted out and such a pleasant day for it with a […]

On a recent walk around the fruit at Saughton I noticed that two of the plants had things wrong with their leaves. Some of the currants had raised red distorted […]