Aberdeen Gardening - Help For The Amateur Gardener

 The Spring bulbs are fairly pushing through the soil, especially the daffodils, excellent reminder that the milder days are not so very far off.
If your garden is open to the elements, look out for some of the shorter Daffs in the garden centres next Autumn.
 One particularly sturdy one which will be left standing when many others [...]

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Although my aim is to be as accurate as I possibly can be with my profile of plants which are hardy in the Aberdeen area, this one I cannot resist.
The Arum Lily in the north east of Scotland is borderline. Overcome the problem by planting in a container, in Winter the protection of a cold [...]

  Mid January, and Aberdeen still free of snow. Mind you travel a few miles inland and it’s a very different story, truly the Winter landscape which southerners expect in this part of the country.
My son in laws mum contacted us today from the Manchester area. A Camellia Donation in her garden is already showing [...]

 Filipendula an ideal  waterside perennial, which absolutely thrives in the Aberdeen area. Generally preferring to be in partial shade in moist soil. The variety Rubra grows to around four feet tall with fluffy deep pink flowers which lighten with age, flowering June/August.
One drawback when lifting this one is, it can take a couple of years before [...]

 Continuing my profile of plants and shrubs which  grow well in our Aberdeen garden.
The evergreen shrub Mahonia is widely grown for its charming yellow scented flowers and long green leaves consisting of 16 to 22 leaflets. 
Flowering in the Aberdeen area from February till April making this one invaluable for the mixed shrub border.
Charity has an upright habit and [...]