Garden Plants for Scotland

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Now retired from the show circut, Helen can focus on her ever-expanding venture, including workshops and events like the wildflower garden walk and Christmas wreath workshops.

Independently-owned and within easy reach for the surrounding areas (it’s just off the M8 motorway), you can make a day of it here with the whole family. Cultivating a garden in the elements can be difficult in a climate such as Scotland’s, leaving many with soggy shrubs and poorly perennials. But developing a beautiful garden to suit the environment is possible. Time to plant out the summer bedding, Begonias, Impatiens, Petunias and Marigolds etc. I always try to get this done in the first three days of the month. Here in Aberdeen its not that unusual to get a cold snap in the first couple of weeks of the month. The young plants always show their displeasure, however they do recover.

Plant a Shelter Belt

April, Spring one minute and before you know it the Daffodils are flattened with the snow.Never mind lets enjoy those moments of warmth in the sunshine while we can. If you didn’t manage to give your lawn an Autumn feed last month, there is still time, if you do this job in the first week of November.

Rosebank Garden Centre has been established for 200 years, starting out life as a family business of fruit and vegetable growers before flourishing into one of the most well-known centres along the scenic Clyde Valley. Keep garden ponds aerated by adding water from the hose, not quite so important if you have a filtering pump with fountain. September Silverbirch Garden Centre is one of Scotland’s most design-led centres, taking as much pride in their interior design offerings as they do to their vast array of plants.Weeds are growing very fast at this time of year. Not only do they look unsightly, they draw out a lot of moisture from the soil. Get out the hoe regularly, personally I prefer to get in about with the hand fork July The interior showroom is sectioned up to showcase plush furnishings, accessories and homeware – their motto is ‘gorgeous and affordable’. Sadly for dog lovers however, this does mean your four-legged friend is unable to come join the fun, but they have set up a dog parking station to the left of their main entrance. In the eighteenth century there was a reaction against the "absolutism" and "popery" of the French court and a retreat from the expense of maintaining large formal gardens. The move to a less formal landscape of parklands and irregular clumps of planting, associated in England with Capability Brown, was dominated in Scotland by his followers, Robert Robinson and Thomas White senior and junior. New ideas about gardening developed in the nineteenth century including the writings of Humphry Repton. The mid-nineteenth century saw the beginnings of formal public parks.

When I left Banff for my trip offshore at the beginning of October my garden was still in full bloom with green leaves and lush stalks. I know that when I go home around the 26th of October this will all have changed. The weather here up in the very North of the North Sea is quite chilly but sunny which can be quite misleading and give a false sense of good weather at home. I have been following the weather reports and it seems that the North East of Scotland has been full of cold rain and low pressure fronts which will have decimated my garden and I will go home to a totally different situation. The flowers, lush stalks and green leaves will have disappeared and turned brown and gold. Realising this gave me a moment of panic ‘What do I do?’ I turned once more to your Gardening Calendar. Once again it has been very helpful reading, as I shall have to hurry to get the garden put to bed and your calendar has all the help and hints I will need to ensure that my garden looks lovely once again next spring. My garden has come on leaps and bounds since I have been following your calendar – a big thank you once more…. Panic over 🙂November is a good time for planting hedging, bare rooted plants are available in good garden centres. Soil quality in Scotland varies wildly from free-draining sand to heavy clay, stony upland to low-lying bog. Think about what you want to grow before you spend money adding or subtracting richness in the soil; generally, working with your native soil will work better than fighting it – a vast array of plants are available now to give you space for creativity and success! Environment, Light and Microclimates.