Aberdeen Gardening - Help For The Amateur Gardener

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Remember me, an excellent hybrid tea Rose which is very beautiful as a specimen or for bedding. Bred by Cockers in 1984, parentage=Alexander x Silver jubilee.
We planted this very fine award winning Rose in rememberence of my wife’s mother Violet who sadly passed away in that year.
The fully double blooms have a slight fragrance and a [...]

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Truly one of the best blue flowered Clematis available. Perle’d’ Azur’  with sky blue blooms measuring 4in across flowers continuously from July to September.
I found that this Clematis did take a couple of seasons to settle in but is now robust and gives a wonderful display every Summer without fail. Here in Aberdeen ‘Perle’ [...]

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One extremely floriferous HT Rose that does not have blooms the size of dinner plates is Laura Anne. This fragrant rose with perfectly shaped peach/pink blooms with shades of orange has in fact more the habit of a floribunda. Bred by Anne G Cocker in 1992.
In our front garden a bed of fourteen of these roses [...]

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If ever you are inclined to think evergreen plants are boring, take a look at Pieris Forest Flame. Glossy deep or mid green leaves. The young leaves opening in April are a bright almost luminous red. Come May these new leaves turn a pale cream, very unusual. Also in late spring you get panicles [...]

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The ongoing problem with the Box blight has taken its toll. It started Summer 2008 resulting in at least fifty per cent of the plants leaves turning grey and falling off. A very sorry sight indeed, however by Spring this year 2009 it was looking promising, many of the plants which appeared dead were [...]

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If you are considering replacing roses which have past there best  it is essential that you lift the old soil and replace with new topsoil.
Roses never grow well again in the same spot unless you do this. If you like the old fashioned look, Portland rose Jacques Cartier is one to seriously consider.
Allan Titchmarsh once named this one as [...]

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This Lily is one of the Chinese species, pure white with yellow stamens and  a fabulous heady perfume. It is the earliest white to flower, grows well if planted directly into the border or in containers.
Lilies enjoy a rich humus soil with added grit for drainage. Flowering time in Aberdeen late June / July. I quite [...]

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Choosing woodland plants can be great fun, although sometimes frustrating when the plant you are seeking is not to be found in your local garden centres. For example Epimediums a fascinating genus of plants from the Berberidaceae family, but not that easy to come by.

Epimedium Grandiflorum this species is deciduous and the new growth rises [...]