Monday, 28 December 2015

WINTER GARDEN

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WINTER GARDEN We generally plan our gardens for spring and summer colour, then enjoy the autumn as leaves take on the golds, orange...
Monday, 21 December 2015

FESTIVE THOUGHTS

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FESTIVE THOUGHTS As the festive season draws ever so near we begin the wind down, putting essential gardening tasks on the back bur...
Tuesday, 15 December 2015

GRAPES FOR SCOTTISH GARDENS

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GRAPES FOR SCOTTISH GARDENS As an apprentice gardener way back in the mists of time we were trained in propagation of grape vines, a...
Saturday, 5 December 2015

GARDEN CLIMBERS

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GARDEN CLIMBERS In my early training days in gardening, the only way to find out about plants was to grow them, so I created a we...
Tuesday, 1 December 2015

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Winter Pictures of Tayside  Having a wee rest from gardening while my winter landscape paintings of snow scenes around Tayside and Scotla...
Monday, 30 November 2015

EARLY WINTER IN THE GARDEN

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EARLY WINTER IN THE GARDEN As winter begins to close in we take every chance to get into the garden on any dry days and when the sun...
Thursday, 26 November 2015

WINTER PROPAGATION

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WINTER PROPAGATION We all love to grow a few extra plants for free, and late autumn is a good time to propagate many plants. Winter ...
Thursday, 19 November 2015

BERRIES

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BERRIES Summer and autumn is the time when most flowering trees and shrubs produce fruit. Some of these we consume as fruit such as ...
Thursday, 12 November 2015

AUTUMN COLOUR

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AUTUMN COLOUR Summer may now be truly over, but many plants go out in a blaze of glory to cheer us up before winter sets in. As gard...

SUNNY AUTUMN DAYS

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SUNNY AUTUMN DAYS Late October was always tattie picking time, and memories are still very strong of cold mornings but it always see...