The Healing Garden

When I first thought about opening my garden under Scotland's Garden Scheme, the 28th June 2020 seemed a long way off...and all of a...

Over the last week or so, as we have seen some rather dramatic rises in temperature, the wildlife 'activity' in the garden has increased...

I do often wonder if less knowledge is actually empowering. Let me explain...I'm a novice gardener only starting four or so years ago. I...

Are we really in May already... How did that happen? One minute its freezing March and the daffodils are not quite open and now they are...

It's hard to be a gardener when you are impatient. It's true. With SGS and NGS gardens on lock-down, both organisations are hosting...

And the next it back to winter but that's another story. I can confirm, it's finally happened, light nights and some warm days and a...

I hadn't realised it had been so long since my last blog. February and March are a time of year that promise so much but most often...

As we look back on yet another week of gales and for some parts of the British Isles, exceptional amounts of rain causing severe...

Yippee its February! Spring is just around the corner...allegedly. As I write this blog entry there is a blizzard blowing outside, gale...

We might only be in the first few days of the new year but already the garden is stirring. Suddenly the snowdrops are making an...

With just a few weeks left of this year, this blog post is a look back over what is for this garden the fourth year. 2019 couldn't have...

Winter can be a particularly difficult time for those of us who have the daily addition of depression to deal with. For some reason both...

As the garden winds down for winter and summer is now all but a distant memory, it might seem that the gardener's work is done for the...

For the last couple of years I've grown cosmos 'Candy Stripe'. Its a fabulously tall and floriferous variety with white flowers edged in...

Its that time of year when the trees release their bounty of leaves. Back in spring I was so excited to see the new, almost transparent...

Its no secret that gardening is not a cheap pastime. Seeds and compost are costly, not to mention greenhouses and aggregates but there...

This is the best time to plan next years garden when you can still see the herbaceous perennials before they go completely to ground and you