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This is where the hopes, dreams and expectations all start. I collected my bulbs from the Bulb Workshop at Saughton on Sunday and have potted them up and placed them […]

The rain over the past week has helped plant growth and we didn’t get the hose out for a change. Everything is growing well including the weeds and all the […]

The blossom on the apples and cherry is quite splendid and elsewhere the cherry blossom in the parks is said to be the best it has ever been. Today the […]

Thursday was a day of April showers so some time needed to be spent sheltering from the rain.  Some useful weeding done, deadheading of the flowers now over and daffodils […]

It was all hands to the deck at the Allotment on Thursday, with the shed finally tidied and the tools all cleaned and sharpened. The rotten fruit post was replaced […]

  Our Annual Spring Bulb Show takes place on the 1st and 2nd of April 2023.  The Show is open to the public from 12noon until 5pm on Saturday 1st […]

Only seven days to go until it is showtime and most of the pots are looking on course for the show bench. There can be many a slip between now […]

Where does the time go. It seems to disappear faster the older we get, I think.  There is only one week to go until  the Aberdeen Show in Duthie Park, […]

I suppose that we have come to expect the unexpected when preparing pots of bulbs for the Caley Spring Show. We have had the snow, now all we wait for […]

With only 4 weeks to go until the Caley Spring Show the pulse is quickening and anxiety levels increasing. Some pots are well advanced and others less so. What to […]