Gardens
Top tips to make your garden feline friendly
Scottish cat lovers have been given some top tips to ensure their moggies make the most of their gardens this summer. With the growing season around the corner, Cats Protection has compiled its top tips to help Scottish cat lovers create the perfect feline-friendly garden. The charity, which will be attending this year’s Gardening Scotland…
Read MoreOrganisations join forces for Scotland’s Plant Health Centre
A new organisation looking at the issues affecting Scotland’s plantlife has been officially launched. More than 60 experts and stakeholders from the diverse worlds of forestry, horticulture, the environment and agriculture today (Tuesday) gathered at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to hear about the aims and vision of a new virtual Plant Health Centre for…
Read MoreAttracting pollinators to your garden is easy as A, Bee, C
The whole planet is to be abuzz with activity for World Bee Day this weekend (Sunday, 20 May). Ecologists at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) have put together a list of top tips to protect these amazing insects and help your garden grow. With their bright and colourful array of flowers, gardens provide important food sources…
Read MoreBook review: RHS Genealogy for Gardeners
What’s the story? We’re finally starting to see signs of summer, and the gardens are in full bloom at last! If you’re a budding gardener, or just want to learn more about the beautiful greenery around you, Dr Ross Bayton and Simon Maughan will guide you through everything there is to know about plants.…
Read MoreGet ready for a fantastic month in your garden
May is a fabulous month in the garden. Trees and shrubs burst into leaf and flower, cottage garden plants fill borders with their exuberant growth and containers bloom with vibrant summer colours ready for longer days enjoyed outdoors. Here, Louise Golden, senior plant buyer at Dobbies Garden Centre, gives her top tips to make the…
Read MoreMake the most of National Gardening Week
It’s National Gardening Week and we’ve got some great tips for you as your garden grows. Running from 30 April to 6 May, we’ve finally seen the arrival of some much-needed spring sunshine, so now is the time to give your garden a spruce-up and get ready to enjoy the warmer months. As National Gardening…
Read MoreA look round Scotland’s most exotic garden
Scottish Field speaks to Richard Baines, curator at Logan Botanic Garden in Dumfries & Galloway, to find out what there is to see and do at Scotland’s most exotic garden. What’s special about Logan Botanic Garden? Logan Botanic Garden is widely known as Scotland’s most exotic garden. Nowhere else in Scotland can such a large collection…
Read MoreA chance to explore gardens in Stirlingshire
Visitors will be able to see the beautiful gardens at The Pass House in Kilmahog, Callander, this Sunday, April 29. From 2-5pm, The Pass House are kindly opening their garden on behalf of Scotland’s Garden Scheme. This is a well planted, medium-sized garden with steep banks down to a swift river. The garden paths are…
Read MoreNew film will look at the Scottish Versailles
A group of students are working on a documentary film telling the forgotten story of a Scottish castle. Loudoun is a documentary film, currently in production, by staff, students and recent graduates of Edinburgh College of Art, concentrating on the origins of landscape design in Scotland around 1700. It tells the true story of how two…
Read MoreFourth annual show will be blooming lovely
Flower power will come to the fore at a show taking place in Perthshire next month. Organised by the Scottish Auricula and Primula Society, their fourth annual show is taking place on Saturday, 19 May. It will be held in the Blackford Village Hall. A spokesman said: ‘This is a rare opportunity to see some…
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