As we get closer to moving into Saughton Park, we have come up with an exciting activities programme at the park. This will run alongside our existing Winter Lecture Programme held at RBGE. [...]
The Full workshop will be held at Saughton Park at 2pm on 6th October. The cost is £28. For this, participants will pot up 6 pots of bulbs: 4 daffodils, 1 hyacinth and 1 tulip varieties. Please [...]
With rain threatened, the first job on Thursday was to pick the soft fruit before it got wet, then on with digging up the trial potatoes and weighing them. We were using different kinds of [...]
The eagle-eyed amongst you will have spotted an error in the Events Programme card that was sent out with Preview. The Schools and Junior Groups Spring Show is actually on the 28th and 29th of [...]
There is a huge variety of plants to provide late summer colour. Many are in the aster/daisy family. Michaelmas daisies are traditional herbaceous border plants. Many of the older cultivars are [...]
Dr Philip Lusby MBE, RBGE: The Ornamental use of Roses in British Gardens throughout the Centuries. Philip Lusby is Course Director and Senior Lecturer in Horticulture and Botany at the Royal [...]
Thursday morning spent picking collections of fruit and vegetables for the Dalkeith Show and for a display on the Caley stand at the Dundee Flower and Food Festival – both over the [...]
Quite a wind on Thursday, but the sun was shining as we worked on finishing the pruning of the fruit after the workshop on Sunday and tied in the new growth on the soft fruit. The prunings are [...]
Don’t underestimate how quickly your pots will dry out in this hot weather. This is a picture of a lovely Rudbeckia ‘Summerina Orange’ that I bought recently to fill a hole in [...]
