Well the seasons race has started. My own bulbs at home are out of the plunge and I have to say that they are well advanced. It will now be up to me and the weather to get them at the correct [...]

Are you new to growing your own potatoes?  Have you tried in the past but had problems?  Come along to our free Potato Workshop on Sunday 2nd February in the McHattie Room at Saughton Park. John [...]

Just to whet your appetite, here are a few images of the Caley Winter Border at Saughton Park.  If you are coming along to the Saughton Sunday event on 2nd February, the snowdrops will hopefully [...]

Sarcococca are compact, evergreen shrubs which come into their own in mid-winter which accounts for the common names of Christmas box or sweet box. The flowers are small, creamy or pinkish white [...]

Did you get a plant as a gift for Christmas?  Read on to see how to care for them. Thousands of poinsettias are bought for Christmas. They can stay as colourful additions to a room until Easter [...]

“Confessions of a Council Gardener” – Andrew Hogarth, Acting Principal Amenity Officer for East Lothian Andrew has spent 35 years gardening in East Lothian. He was formerly Area [...]

January is often a quiet month in the garden and apart from the odd bit of tidying-up that gardeners find to do, it appears that not much is happening. But nature is always at work! The weather [...]

Ivy is a self-clinging climber whose tiny, adventitious roots allow it to attach to trees or walls.  In woods it can also carpet the ground. It has glossy, evergreen leaves with three or five [...]

Just to let you know that our Administrator is now on annual leave until after Christmas so she won’t be able to answer your emails, process membership subscriptions or any of the other [...]

Leaf mould is the result of fungal action on dead leaves. Unlike garden compost which is predominantly the result of decomposition, when leaves break down it is as a consequence of fungal [...]

Last Thursday was our last working day on the plot for this year.  A dry, windless day gave us the chance to do the winter wash (we use ‘Winter Wash’ which is organic) of the fruit trees and [...]

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 [...]