Holly is strongly associated with Christmas, featuring on many a Christmas card. With its spines and blood red berries, the plant had religious significance to early Christians and the Romans [...]

Last week, some of the pupils who take part in our Grow & Learn in Nature programme planted fruit trees in the Caley Demonstration Garden within Saughton Park as part of their Action Earth [...]

We finished coppicing the hazel today and started (and finished!) doing the same to the willows. They are now looking quite stark but will start putting out new shoots in the spring. The [...]

Last week, some intrepid pupil from St Cuthbert’s Primary School planted some lovely Red Sentinel crab apple trees in the Caley Demonstration Garden within Saughton Park.  This was done as [...]

After a few dreich days, Thursday was sunny but chilly. On the bright side, we had plenty to do to keep us warm. We started on the annual coppicing of the hazel that we grow as a windbreak on the [...]

We had a great day yesterday at our Festive Florals workshop, one of The Caley’s Saughton Sunday activities. We had 9 folk attending the workshop and they made it a fun afternoon, with lots [...]

In George’s last blog he had brought his pots of Paperwhites inside to encourage them a little, whilst Pam’s were already flowering.  So with only a few days to go until the mini [...]

Last week, the McHattie Room at Saughton Park hosted a presentation for the Caley Grow & Learn Awards.  A group of students from Edinburgh College were presented with their certificates, [...]

Our speaker, John Marshall, describes himself as having spent a lifetime travelling in potatoes. He is a member of the Caley and we can vouch for the fact that he is an entertaining speaker. The [...]

On Thursday, we kept warm by energetically barrowing leaves onto the bare beds to act as a mulch over winter. The thick layer will protect the soil from the winter weather, provide shelter for [...]

Well, the sun was shining on Thursday, but we had to be energetic to keep warm so no changes there. Our comfrey has been disappearing in a sea of Innula, Helianthemum and Valerian so we had a [...]

Every year a few Caley members have a friendly competition to see who can get their Paperwhites in flower for the first meeting in December. George is sure there are many folks with Paperwhites [...]

If you haven’t already heard the news, you will be pleased to know that Beechgrove will be returning next year with a 26 week run! You can find out more news about Beechgrove in this press [...]