George has started his preparations for The 2019 Caley Spring Bulb Show. Pots have been selected, bulbs have been delivered and compost has been mixed and made ready. When selecting pots for [...]
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 [...]
Delighted to join colleagues from The City of Edinburgh Council and The Friends of Saughton Park to show Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Infrastructure and Connectivity, Michael Matheson, and [...]
The opium poppy Papaver somniferum is a distinctive annual, with grey green heart-shaped leaves. The colourful flowers vary from often white to mauve, but garden selections may be in shades of [...]
Meconopsis is always a key feature at Gardening Scotland. It is one of those groups of plants with star quality. Though best known to gardeners as the big blue Himalayan poppies there are [...]
A day spent dealing with the effects of the overnight gale.(Wednesday night through to Thursday morning). Whilst the gale was still continuing first thing in the morning we still found time to [...]
On Thursday there was no sign of warmer days and a cold east wind was blowing which kept the allotment crew on the move. Plans to get the early potatoes in and sow the first rows of carrots and [...]
The yellow trumpets of daffodils brighten spring in gardens, on roadsides and in parks during March and April. But these are usually larger garden varieties. Our native daffodil is smaller than [...]
The Caley show may be over but the season has been so slow there is still plenty of time to enjoy daffodils. The car is packed with a few blooms ready to head off to Dundee. The Dundee show is [...]
The last roundup. The Daffodil buds that George cut on Sunday have come out overnight. These blooms are the variety ‘Trena’ and will make it to the Showbench. You still [...]
