Aberdeen Gardening - Help For The Amateur Gardener

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Always keen to share with you, plants that perform particularly well in our garden.
This one is a true gem, (Cimicifuga Racemosa Atropurpurea,) Here in Aberdeen, Cimisifuga is a late summer/ autumn flowering Perennial. Further south I suspect it would flower mid summer.
Stunning deep red/black foliage, with white flower spikes towering six to eight feet tall. The [...]

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Always on the lookout for a plant that is a bit different. One Perennial which we have had in the garden for a few years now is Chelone Obliqua. Also known as the turtlehead plant, owing to the resemblance of the flowerheads, you will see what I mean if you check the picture that [...]

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Perennial Asters in Aberdeen tend to be very late in the season before flowering. Fricartii Monch however, placed in a sunny position should flower from late July through till October. The pale Lavender blue flowers are quite outstanding, and this one does not suffer from the mildew normally associated with Asters.
Three planted together will be [...]

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If in your garden there is a position where you find virtually nothing grows, perhaps it may be in full shade, or the soil may be very poor and dry. Whatever the reason don’t despair, I have the answer for you.
Aucuba also known as the spotted Laurel will grow in any position including where [...]

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Crocosmia x Crocosmiiflora is known as the common Montbretia and was bred by crossing the 2 species C. potsii and C. aurea. The orange shaded flowers are borne on stems just above the strappy sword like leaves. Montbretia is free flowering from early August till October and looks excellent grown along with Phlox.
In all the [...]

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Summer in Aberdeen is drawing to a close, pretty poor season much like last year. Mind you a good spell in July fairly got the plants growing. Lots of work to do in the garden, in a couple of weeks time the Summer bedding will be cleared and the ground prepared for plants and [...]

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For the past two years we have spent a lot of time transforming the back garden. Previously the emphasis was on a garden that looked good in Summer.
Our hard work has been successful and the garden now looks great even in the dullest of Winter days. However it seems our four seasons garden has [...]

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Some plants in the garden centre look just too exotic to possibly be fully hardy. This one, Phormium Firebird from New Zealand will not let you down.
Even Aberdeens winter of 07/08 which could not be described as mild left the plant competely unscathed.
Firebird is a new introduction and will look fantastic as a feature [...]