The essential guide for Scotland’s gardeners

This book is a compact colour guide of the largest survey of Scottish gardens ever mounted and the first such guidebook to all that Scotland can offer garden and plant lovers. It’s an updated must-have guide for anyone with even the slightest interest in gardens. Covering everything from the basic essentials to the most specialist…

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Plant expert shares ultimate green-thumbed guide

Green fingered homeowners and tenants can now access the ultimate guide on how to bring the outdoors into their home thanks to an Edinburgh based plant expert. In celebration of International Houseplant Appreciation Day on January 10, homebuilder CALA Homes (East) has partnered with plant expert, Andrew Forbes of Green.Meadows Edinburgh, to create a carefully…

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Dobbies and NTS give podcast garden guidance

A Scottish charity is giving an insight into its work and is sharing top tips on how to prepare gardens for the autumn. Leading garden centre retailer Dobbies has teamed up with Scotland’s largest membership organisation, the National Trust for Scotland, to give listeners the inside track on what it takes to maintain its 38…

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A look around some of the most stunning gardens

Aspiring to promote interaction with the natural world, photos are divided into categories that encourage the appreciation of the planet’s diversity. Particularly for nature enthusiasts, the staggering range of nature’s beauty is astonishingly captured from a multitude of perspectives and locations. It could benefit from more narrative, but definitely one for the coffee table. International…

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National Trust for Scotland’s roots manouevre

The National Trust for Scotland has launched a new gardening subscription that offers a monthly delivery of gardening goodies, including Scottish seeds to plant at home. From green-fingered gardeners to those who are just beginning their gardening journey, Roots is a celebration of Scotland’s flora and has been designed to help people reconnect with nature.…

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How to grow snowdrops in your garden

Snowdrops are an attractive, early spring or late winter flower. When planted in swathes, either alone or alongside other early season bulbs such as daffodils and crocuses, they bring early season color to winter gardens. The snowdrop (Galanthus) happily grows in moderate and colder climates. These are hardy low maintenance bulbs. A perfect shade loving…

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A look at the beautiful gardens of Little Sparta

Another of Scotland’s gardens of note is featuring on our TV screens tonight. Green-fingered Murdo Macdonald visits some of the country’s most important gardens to explore their design, plant-life, setting and history, in Gàrraidhean na h-Alba/ Gardens of Scotland. In this programme, Murdo visits Ian Hamilton Finlay’s garden and work of art, Little Sparta, set…

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Photographer to reveal Desert Island Gardens

Britain’s premier gardens photographer is to share her Desert Island Gardens this week. Andrea Jones, who lives near Barr, in South Ayrshire, will be a guest of the Garden Masterclass, where she will chat with Noel Kingsbury and Annie Guilfoyle. Like radio series Desert Island Discs, Andrea will discuss her favourite gardens which she has…

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Reviving the walled garden at Dundonnell House

Lady Jane Rice set about reviving the walled garden at Dundonnell when she moved here – a project that continues to flourish. Dundonnell House and its walled garden sit in a dramatic position at the head of a sheltered valley in Wester Ross, with the peaks of An Teallach rising up behind. The magnificent setting…

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Taking a look at Scotland’s gardens of note

A new TV series looking at some of Scotland’s most important gardens is coming to our TV screens. Green-fingered Murdo Macdonald visits some of the country’s gardens of note, to explore their design, plant-life, setting and history. In the first programme, to be shown on Monday, February 15, Murdo travels to Fochabers in Moray to…

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