Aberdeen Gardening - Help For The Amateur Gardener

Agapanthus is a Herbaceous plant well worth growing. Here in Aberdeen it is best to grow them in containers, and give them the protection of the greenhouse over winter.Agapanthus need a well drained soil/compost. Use John Innes No. 3 for container grown plants. Feed with a high potash feed (tomato food) once in April and [...]

Thats the end of a busy day.got the bedding planted out in the walled garden which we are helping friends with. It was a most hellish day, blowing a gale, cold, regular showers of rain, but so satisfying to get the job done. Plants we used were, Impatiens, Non Stop Begonias, Begonia Semperflorens, and Violas. [...]

A visit to Dobies garden centre today where they have very good plants of (Alstromerias) a beautiful hardy perenial, not a plant grown for its foliage, but makes up for this with masses of flowers.
As exotic as orchids yet far easier to grow, Princess Alstroemerias have become widely planted due to their three month flowering [...]

Most climbing plants require support with trellis or wire,and very often a degree of skill with pruning and training the branches. The self clinging Hydrangea Petiolaris is a climber that is easy to grow and will take care of itself other than maybe cutting back some of the branches that grow outwards if you feel [...]

One of the best ways to add structure to a semi shaded border is with the use of Ferns And Hostas. If you have never been keen to try Ferns, maybe you think they are a bit boring, well take a look at this one.The Japanese Painted Fern, Athyrium niponicum Pictum’, is a low maintance, deciduous [...]

Giving a little help with a friends garden,high on the list of preferences is flowers which are scented. Here is a list of some that could be useful.
ROSES
HT Fragrant Cloud, reddish-orange red
HT: Chrysler Imperial, red
HT: Papa Meilland, dark red
HT: Perfume Delight, pink
HT: Secret
ER: Gertrude Jekyll, pink
ER: Othello, dark red
Alba: Felicite Parmentier, once-blooming
Damask: Mme. Hardy, white, [...]

Time to start hardening off all the half hardy annuals in preparation for planting out. We normally wait until the first week in June, well in actual fact its almost always the first day in June. Often we use Impatiens as one of the main plants in the scheme, but if June gets off to [...]

The Camellias in the garden are just going over now, if living in Aberdeen you think the weather is too cold for this beautifull shrub try Donation or any of the other Williamsii hybrids,they are the result of a cross of C. saluenensis x C. japonica produced by J C Williams in the 1930s. Their [...]