Aberdeen Gardening - Help For The Amateur Gardener

Well its come round to that time of year again to clear out the summer bedding plants. Not exactly one of our favourite jobs,in fact unless you intend to plant out for a Spring show, the Summer bedding can continue for a few weeks yet.
Our bedding Begonias have also been lifted,stems have been cut back [...]

Profile of Plants That Perform Well in Our Aberdeen Garden
The Japanese Anemone Honorine Jobert is often described as the best variety available.
The white single flowers tinged pink on the underside give a beautiful show from late August through till October. The fine qualities of this plant have been rewarded with the prestigious award of garden merit [...]

Profile of plants which grow well in our Aberdeen garden
This Abutilon was given to us as a cutting from a gardener friend six years ago. It has been fast growing reaching a height of ten feet after four years.
I have had difficulty tracing the variety, everything seemed to suggest that it is Vitifolium, problem is [...]

 THALICTRUM AQUILEGIIFOLIUM ALBUM
Profile of Perennials and shrubs which grow well in our Aberdeen garden in the North East of Scotland. 

An erect clump forming perennial with blue/green pinnate leaves which are more or less identical to those on Columbines. Clusters of fluffy white flowers produced in early Summer, falling to reveal equally attractive purplish seed heads [...]

Profile of Plants That Grow Well in Our Aberdeen Garden
Berberis Thunbergii Harlequin an ideal deciduous shrub to add contrast to the numerous shades of green in the garden border.
This variety has beautiful purple foliage marbled with pink,cream and white. Don’t set this one at the very back of the border as it will not reach a height [...]

Well finally we have the back garden set out in a way that should look good all year round.
We have been in our present home for twenty two years and although the garden has looked outstanding this was usually for only four months of the year. The biggest problem was the main herbaceous border, it was simply far [...]

 Profile of Perennials and shrubs which grow well in our Aberdeen garden in the North East of Scotland.
 

This beautiful deciduous shrub with cobalt blue flowers from late July till the end of September is one of those plants  when once seen  you just must have .
The variety is fully hardy down to minus 15 degrees [...]