Aberdeen Gardening - Help For The Amateur Gardener

Beautiful sunny day spent potting up the begonias. These were the tubers which had been started off in trays in the middle of March. Very few failures, they are now all in small plant pots, and come the end of May they will be ready to plant out. Most of the Begonias are for the [...]

Quite recently I suggested that Magnolia although relatively hardy was difficult to flower in Aberdeen. Well today driving along Great Western Road I passed three gardens with quite mature specimens of Magnolia Stellata.This is the smallest magnolia and one of the most popular, growing very slowly into a rounded bush, 3m (10ft) high when mature [...]

A bit of repair work was required on the round gardens lawn today. The grass in this area of the garden never comes through the winter very well. This is mainly caused by the fact that during winter this part of our garden gets no sun at all. You may well think why doesn’t he [...]

Finally got round to preparing a small vegetable patch in the garden today. This is a first, I sowed seeds of carrots, lettuce, and radish, (well, from humble beginnings) I will keep you up to date with the progress. Here are a few tips for growing carrots. For best results they  prefer a light soil which [...]

Working in the garden in the early evening, it did occur to me that the last time I was able to do this was thirty years ago. Reason for this is, since nineteen seventy five I have been a shopkeeper. Rising at four thirty every morning, preparing the daily newspapers in anticipation of the early [...]

Lovely spring day,once again helping out in friends town garden. A walled garden, which is noticeably warmer than our edge of town garden. Work is progressing very well, in need of a little TLC. I will take a few pictures mid summer and place them on the blog. In our garden the leaves of the [...]

Climbing roses, when well cared for are a magnificent sight. When pruning after the first season any strong shoots can be trained and tied, for best results the stems should be trained laterally in a fan shape taking care not to break any shoots. This will have the effect of producing more flowers along the [...]

Beautiful day,last time I said it felt like spring, we ended up with snow and sub zero temperatures for five weeks. This morning got the decking cleaned, and treated it with the new cuprinol spraying treatment, very effective indeed, looks brand new again. In the afternoon, the wooden garden bench with the flaking blue paint [...]