Nine Caley members and friends met with Stan de Prato at Longniddry Bents car park 2 last Tuesday evening for a fascinating, informative and fun insight into the many and varied wildflower plants [...]

The sowing and planting for the summer crops are almost finished. On Thursday, we planted out the runner beans (various varieties), some borlotti beans which are better for drying, French [...]

Having a large working glasshouse at Saughton Park is incredibly important for the Caley so there will be an increasing number of fundraising initiatives over the coming months.  Just one of [...]

  Thursday was a dull day which promised rain – something that certainly happened, but we did manage to get the grass cut and, as recommended by the BBC programme ‘Springwatch’, [...]

Join Stan da Prato as he leads this walk along some of the East Lothian coastline.  Meet at Longniddry Bents No2 car park between 6 & 6.30pm. There will be a short walk at this site then we [...]

Always one of the features at Gardening Scotland, Meconopsis is one of those groups of plants with star quality. Though best known to gardeners as the big blue Himalayan poppies, there are other [...]

May is the busiest month on the allotment with so much sowing and planting to be done as well as keeping up with the weeding and grass cutting.   Today the Brussel sprouts and late cabbages [...]

Apologies to  Moira and her team at the Allotment.  Due to a few technical difficulties we were unable to post last weeks Allotment Blog to the website.  Here it is now.  You will get another [...]

You will be delighted to hear that the walled garden has now been re-opened to the public.  Do go along to the park and see how beautiful it looks. Unfortunately, the courtyard area which [...]

The first job when we arrive is the walk round to check how everything is doing and what is needing done. On Thursday the first of the potatoes were showing, the second early variety ‘Nicola’, so [...]

A carpet of bluebells (wild hyacinths for many in Scotland, where a bluebell is traditionally Campanula rotundifolia) is one of the glories of spring. They are usually found in old deciduous [...]

Opening your garden is rather a nerve-racking business and I feel as though my head is on the chopping block. With a few days to go, what I see most of are plants which are already over – [...]

  On Thursday, we did the first cut of the grass and more seed sowing. We sowed another row of carrots and beetroot to give us a succession of produce and two rows of kohl rabi, both the [...]

If you haven’t yet bought your tickets for Gardening Scotland 2019, don’t forget that you can get a discount simply by quoting CALEY2019 in the Promotional Code box when booking [...]

Auricula ‘The Caley’ is now in bloom for a few short weeks.   (Note the Auricula between the two pots of  Auricula ‘The Caley’  is Auricula ‘Adrienne’)