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I love dahlias. There I said it and I don’t care that they are supposedly unfashionable cause they are gorgeous and every garden should have them. Ok so now the confession is out of the way, let’s talk about growing dahlias and I’ll tell you how I became a firm […]
A trip to the garden centre this weekend has done us the world of good. The weather has just been horrendous for ages and the garden is a wet mess, and if that’s not bad enough, it’s time to lift the dahlias for over-winter storage which means there are going […]
The darker, colder winter months are when gardeners all yearn for spring. But for the thoughtful gardeners, this doesn’t have to be a void where there is no gardening to be had. Instead, on days when we can’t be out working in the garden, we could instead be doing our […]
This week we are going for a real indepth tour of our gardens. We’ll show you all our favourite spots and tell you our thoughts about why we planted them up the way we did. And of course, along the way, we’ll update you on all our winter growing in […]
Lots of plans for the garden this weekend, but… the weather wasn’t on our side. What should have been a wee hour ended up being spread over the entire weekend but we got there. We’ve added loads of spring bulbs to the garden, including more tulips, quite snazzy ones. More […]
I feel like every week I comment that we are busy in the garden, but in all honesty, we are always busy because there are always jobs needing done. It may not always be the glamour of the greenhouse or of sowing new crops but it needs done. This has […]
Buying plants online can be both convenient and cost-effective, especially if you don’t have a greenhouse to grow your own seedlings through spring but there are some things to think about if you take this route. The growing season in Scotland is generally a lot shorter than elsewhere in the […]
It feels like forever since Kate and I had some garden time. It’s been a mix of my very intense studies, which pretty much take up all of my time and the fact that the weather has been pretty awful, but now that my studies are over for the summer […]
This year’s experiment was to grow the flowers for our hanging baskets ourselves rather than buy plants from our local garden centre. This would be the first time we’d grown flowers from seed so it was a bit of l new adventure for us and as usual I went into […]
