Aberdeen Gardening - Help For The Amateur Gardener

Hostas are essential plants because they thrive in shade, have wonderful shapely leaves and often gorgeous rich foliage colours, and combine extremely well with scores of different plants. They can be used as ground cover and as stunning specimens in ornamental pots. Hosta look great when planted with ferns,or grasses. Another good idea is to [...]

Don’t you sometimes think that it is only when you become a more experienced gardener that you can truly appreciate the beauty of some of our garden plants. For instance a rose,dahlia.or begonia simply shout out look at me. On the other hand many of the herbaceous plants some of which can blend in well [...]

This morning we received the plug plants Begonia Semperflorens which have been eagerly awaited. I have before grown this variety from seed, but they can be slow to germinate, and at 9.99 for 120 plug plants you can’t go wrong. The quality of these plants,which could be described as a size up from seedlings is [...]

Back to work in the front garden again today. After removing the box hedging on Saturday, the hardest work was carried out today. The main back border which is, or was planted with a range of evergreens is now a blank canvas. Some or most of the plants had been in the garden for twelve [...]

Well, weather was nice enough to carry out the project that I was telling you about yesterday. Yes I did dig up the box hedging from the front garden,and with help from the lady of the house, we got them all transplanted in the back garden. The fiberous roots on some of the plants were [...]

Our front garden is a mixed combination of permanent and annual plants. Three years ago we added a little formality with box hedging. This can generally work quite well, however with our garden in an elevated position, we are beginning to think that this has not enhanced the appearance of the garden. It looks as [...]

Cleaned out the greenhouse the other day, and just for added protection I lit one of those sulpher candles. I did remove the young plants which are growing away nicely for tubs and baskets. took them indoors where they will be safe overnight. These candles as they call them come in a tin, filled with [...]

Thank goodness, this has been the first day since February that we have been able to work outside in the garden without being freezing cold. Borders tidied up, removed the net from the pond. We also have a stone water feature at the opposite side of the garden which I always wrap with poly bubble, [...]