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Further to comments and posts previous regarding the early flowering of the pots of Iris excavated from the plunge bed at the Botanics I was sent the following pictures by […]

What a difference a week makes, we took the bulbs out of our own plunge bed on Friday following last week’s trip to the Botanics.  The results are quite pleasing […]

The editor’s garden (and house) are finally, it seems, going to be sold.  Just before we get to the really cold stuff, we should be moving to a new and […]

I see from the Caley website that Beryl and Ian McNaughton of Macplants have been awarded the George Forrest Medal for the Caley Gentian.  Gentiana ‘The Caley’ was developed by Ian [...]

Just when you think summer might have come at last; no, not a frost, just a dewy, sunny Sunday in Peebleshire.

For the last 2 weeks my children have been following the steady progress of a number of caterpillars on the Nasturtiums outside the back door of our house, eagerly expecting […]

The grand (but exciting), the old, the unexpected,  the fascinating and the inspirational as well as practical: What a week! [ed.  I have added links to all of the above […]

I have spent many hours on my hands and knees amongst the flower beds over the last few years dealing with what I considered to be ‘unwanted visitors’.  I have […]

One of the attractions of this year’s gardening Scotland were the gardens and demonstrations from some of Scotland’s colleges. Oatridge College provided regular demonstrations of [...]

4 months ago I bought a new fish tank.  For those of you who know about such things it’s a reasonably big one at 125 litres.  So far I’m not […]