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AND GARDENS

How Granny’s copper coin inspired flower innovation

IT'S a Granny's trick passed down from generation to generation - and used by plenty of church flower arrangers too: stick a copper penny in...

Letterbox vase maker Potr seals Bloom & Wild deal

A SCOTTISH couple who designed a vase that can fit through a letterbox has won a contract from one of Europe's biggest online flower delivery...

Tartan Blanket Co makes TV dream come true

THE Tartan Blanket Co in Leith is making one weaver's dream come true in a new BBC television show. Jess Anne Clements was one of...

Dunvegan Garden scoops RHS award

DUNVEGAN Castle & Gardens has been selected as this year's top Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) partner garden in Scotland. The RHS said that the award...
HWU Students at Great Tapestry of Scotland, Galashiels, Scottish Borders, 16/06/2022:
Heriot Watt University textiles and interiors students (from left) are: Kaci McEwan, Emma Kilpatrick and Claire Kennedy. 
Photography for Live Borders from: Colin Hattersley Photography - www.colinhattersley.com - cphattersley@gmail.com - 07974 957 388.

Fashion news round-up: The Big Cushion Push and more

Peter Ranscombe measures up the latest fashion news round-up. INTERIOR designers Antonia Burnett and Terian Tilston are organising the "The Big Cushion Push" to raise...

North Berwick and Linlithgow win bloomin’ gold

A PAIR of Scottish towns triumphed at the Royal Horticultural Society's (RHS's) Britain in Bloom finals. North Berwick in Bloom won a gold medal and...
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Scotland’s Christmas Home of the Year revealed

A traditional Victorian home in Lesmahagow has been crowded the winner of Scotland's Christmas Home of the Year 2024. Interior designers Anna Campbell-Jones, Banjo Beale...
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Scottish castle visited by Robert Burns in line for £2 million restoration after being sold to new owner

A historic Scottish castle visited by Robert Burns could be in line for a major restoration after being sold to a new owner. Baltersan Castle is thought...
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Meet the couple leaving a lasting legacy for a rare tree species on Arran

A couple with a passion for the rare Arran Whitebeam has left a legacy for the island through their work to help save the native...
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Life With St Andrew Botanic Gardens: ‘The answers to society’s biggest challenges all involve a different relationship with plants’

Harry Watkins, director of St Andrew Botanic Gardens, on growing up with gardeners as a child, experimenting with new ideas and how what we thought...
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Hamish Martin: ‘Known as the tree of knowledge, hazel was one of the first trees to colonise these lands on the retreat of the ice age’

Gardening columnist Hamish Martin delves into the history of the hazel tree this month and explores how it became entrenched in our ancient history, beliefs...
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Hamish Martin: ‘There is nothing more spiritually uplifting than walking within a Scots Pine wood in December’

This month we are delighted to welcome Scottish Field's newest columnist, Perthshire-based herbologist Hamish Martin. A lecturer on herbs at the Royal Botanic Garden in...


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