Aberdeen Gardening - Help For The Amateur Gardener

Last day of February, today we were set to visit friends who required some help with their garden. However flurrys of snow yesterday have been replaced with a complete white out. Result everyones garden looks fantastic, covered in three inches of snow. Tonight we are set for sub zero temperatures. Don’t forget the garden birds [...]

Rose today with good intentions, still roses to prune, greenhouse to prepare for the seed sowing and one or two other jobs that I was going to attend to.However five minutes outside and that was enough today, far too cold, flurrys of heavy snow and a biting wind. So today too much time has been [...]

In the twenty years that we have been in our present house, the amount of times that we have changed the layout of our patio, borders on the ridiculous. It started off with traditional flagstones. not very inspiring, so we went about creating this circular patio using decorative bricks with small concrete slabs shaded red [...]

Now is the time to start preparing the lawn for spring and summer. If your grass like ours has to put up with permanent shade in winter, the chances are your pride and joy which looks like a velvet carpet in summer can now appear to be rather sickly. Well mother nature will now take [...]

Some twenty years ago,the terraced house we lived in had a rather small garden. Smaller borders meant we didn’t have the room for all the plants we really wanted to put in them. We compromised with container planting, which gives you the option to move those special plants around the garden, to either cover an [...]

We have a small garden pond, which I have previously told you of how a Heron comes and takes the goldfish. Now that we have two grandsons of an age that makes you anxious when they play in the garden, we have taken the decision to fill in the pond and plant up the area.  At [...]

We have a small garden pond, which I have previously told you of how a Heron comes and takes the goldfish. Now that we have two grandsons of an age that makes you anxious when they play in the garden, we have taken the decision to fill in the pond and plant up the area. [...]

Went to visit friends in South Deeside today. They are always so complimentary of our garden, and have often sought our advice. Well it is some time since we paid them a visit, and the students have become the masters,for their garden is the most interesting and beautiful I have come across. Their modesty belies [...]