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I have been too busy over the last couple of months to keep up with the blog, but decided to rest and relax a bit, and been out deadheading the roses and doing a bit of ‘therapeutic’ weeding! Snapped a … Continue reading
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I’ve been watching this lovely red squirrel for the past hour or so, feeding from the fat feeders. (I should really be filling the van for tomorrows sale!!) It actually let me get really close – within a couple of … Continue reading
Scotlands gardening show is on at Ingliston, Edinburgh on the last Friday /Saturday of May and Sunday 1st June! I should be preparing pots and trays, labelling etc, but decided it was just too nice today, and decided to plant … Continue reading
This has to be one the most beautiful spring flowering bulbs! With its nodding chequerboard heads in differing shades of purple and occassionally white, no spring garden is complete without them. They will grow quite happily in pots, naturalised in … Continue reading
Even though we haven’t had a day in the last 5 months or so where it hasn’t rained, the perennials, shrubs and trees etc are all showing signs of new growth and promises of lovely things to come! I’ve been … Continue reading
Helleborus foetidus (or stinking hellebore as it is commonly called) is now budding up nicely in the gravel ! I meant to prick out the seedlings last year, but didn’t get round to doing it, so some of these are … Continue reading
As our Daffodils and Narcissi have been forcing themselves through all that muddy ground of ours, has anybody else seen any in bud or bloom yet! It’s been such a mild and very wet winter here, but we had a … Continue reading
This is a really hardy shrub, which will grow almost anywhere in any type of soil, but people either love or loathe it! I really like it during the winter and spring months when the contorted/twisted branches are seen at … Continue reading
If any body out there gets the Sunday Post, you may well have come across an article about my new online business sending out plants by mail order (Sunday 19th January – Travel & Homes supplement). As this winter has been … Continue reading
This has been one of the mildest winters we’ve experienced here in Glenalmond in the past 10 years – I realise it’s only part way through, but we’ve usually been snowed in numerous times and had at least 2 – … Continue reading
I’ve just read an article in the RHS magazine ‘The Garden’ January 2014, whereby they comment upon a survey of 32 commonly grown summer-flowering plants (researched at University of Sussex) which have a one-hundredfold variation in attractiveness to their pollinators! … Continue reading
At this time of year, the garden has lost most of its interest, but certain grasses look good – Molinia caerulea ssp.caerulea ‘Heidebraut’ (what a mouthful!) being one of them! This is a lovely grass with a clump forming habit … Continue reading
I’ve had Mahonia  ‘Charity’ in the garden for a lot of years now, but it has never really flowered properly here in Glenalmond – until this year – and it has fabulous clustered racemes of yellow perfumed blooms, which have … Continue reading
As I opened the front door to go collect the mail (forgot to check early on in the day) I was greeted with this beautiful sky – It’s been a lovely November! … Continue reading
Better day here today – managed to get more perennials cut back in small polytunnel – loads more to do, along with potting on and splitting/dividing perennials before the real winter comes! More lovely skies, afternoon and evening! … Continue reading
More lovely sunsets taken on the track by our farm gate here in Glenalmond – 3.30p.m. … Continue reading
Haven’t been able to get much work done these last few days as everything is frozen solid out here! I couldn’t even get the ice block out of the birds bath to refresh with water! The birds are also back … Continue reading
I’ve been too busy lately to write up any blogs, but as it is still very frosty outside, but sunny – thought I’d post a few pics of the setting sun. First pic was taken approx. 5 weeks ago, while … Continue reading
Acer palmatum var.disssectum ‘Garnet’ has the most beautiful delicate looking burgundy red foliage, which looks fantastic from spring through to the amazing leaf colour in autumn! There are a lot of people put off growing these plants as they think … Continue reading
This is a lovely Japanese Sedum, having pale green leaves with a creamy white edge and pale pink flowers late summer through to autumn! All sedums are loved by the bees and butterflies, and are a really good source of … Continue reading