Another chilly day on Thursday and it was very wet underfoot. The sun shone for a short time and then the heavens opened so we retreated to the cafe. We still had work to do though and, [...]
A few images of the Caley Winter Border at Saughton earlier this week. Lovely to see the small but perfectly formed Tete-a-Tete daffodils in bloom, although they may not have survived this last [...]
Congratulations to Julie Bennett, Scott Smith, Ruth Sillars and Billy Davidson from Wallace Court, Capability Scotland in Renfrewshire on completion of your Caley Grow & Learn ‘Roots’ award. [...]
We were delighted to invite representatives of our funder, the RS MacDonald Trust, to meet with some Grow & Learn participants from Team Oatridge (Pathways) at SRUC Oatridge College, West [...]
Would you like to see one of your photographs in a Calendar about Saughton? The Friends are planning to produce a calendar to celebrate and promote the beauty of Saughton Park. Its main function [...]
Unfortunately, due to the expected high winds this weekend, Edinburgh Council has taken the decision to close the walled garden at Saughton Park. This means that our planned bulb uplift on [...]
The Caley now has its very own rock garden! Many thanks to Ian Christie for donating the plants and for building it for us, ably assisted by Stan da Prato and Colin Wren. The pictures show how it [...]
The lovely scents of Sarcococca, Mahonia and Daphne bholua have been around for several weeks now. Aconites, snowdrops and snowflakes, as well as the winter flowering cherry, are providing a [...]
Thursday was a sunny and mild day and we packed in a lot of work on the allotment – finishing the winter pruning after the pruning workshop which was held on Sunday 2nd February, had a [...]
