Aberdeen Gardening - Help For The Amateur Gardener

 Summer may now be over, although you would not think so with  the temperatures we have been getting. It is bound to get colder soon, but even so there are flowering plants out there for every month of the year.
One more late flowering plant which I just spotted starting to open up in our garden [...]

 Now is a good time to decide on the new roses that you would like to see flowering in your garden next year. Order from the growers now and you will receive bare rooted plants in November. We are replacing a few roses that are starting to deteriorate, if you also are considering doing this, [...]

  We often refer to people as having green fingers, some will say nothing grows for them because they are not green fingered.  Rubbish really isn’t it, gardening is like everything else, you have to work at it. 
Gardening is full of contradictions, you will get the professional telling the amateur, don’t do this, that or [...]

  Finished for the season, the town garden which we have been helping with.
 Today we planted it up with spring flowering bulbs, wallflower, Forget me nots, Pansies, Violas and Polyanthus.
Looking forward to a good display come Spring.
I have now updated the website, and placed pictures of our garden front and back, taken this year.
I have [...]

 Good news for Aberdeen, not only are we the national winner of Britain in bloom. It was announced today that Aberdeen has won the prestigious award International Large Cities in bloom.

This is a Canadian organized event, our Councillors will be blowing their trumpets, declaring rightly so that there is more to Aberdeen than oil.
We were also [...]

 For an excellent, tall, blue flowering perennial you would be hard pushed to find better than Aconitum Bressingham Blue Spire, Fully hardy. The flowers are a rich deep blue, fully one metre tall with sturdy stems which ensures they do not flop over so easily as some of the tall Aconitums, also known as Monkshood
This [...]

  Well thats the summer bedding in the front garden cleared out today. The tuberous begonias will be stored in the loft for next year.
Takes a bit of preparation getting the tubers ready for storing away. Today after lifting them I cut the stems back by two thirds and gently teased away most of the [...]

  Always keen to share with you, plants that perform particularly well in our garden.
This one is a true gem, flowering at its very best, now.
(Cimicifuga Racemosa Atropurpurea,) Here in Aberdeen, this one is a late summer/ autumn flowering Perennial. Further south I suspect it would flower mid summer.
Stunning deep red/black foliage, with white flower [...]