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Gardens smile in flowers, they are an enduring gift; all unique and special. Spring flowers start that smile set to spread over the garden as the beauty of each season [...]

Snowdrops ‘A promise that spring is on the way’ peer out just waiting to be found for it is the month of February; ‘the frontier between winter and spring!’ A [...]

Set on the edge of Fochabers in Moray, Gordon Castle’s Walled Garden is one of Scotland’s great horticultural treasures, with a story that stretches from early estate gardening and 19th-century [...]

All is still, above, a frosty hued winter sky, is crossed by arrowed skeins of geese. Their plaintive cries fading into distant mists. Nothing and everything is happening, this is [...]

Harvest Thanksgiving Thoughts  Not so much a blog, perhaps better described as a ‘Garden round up,’ a thoughtful appraisal of the year. How does this garden grow? On Friday 10th [...]

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree Joyce Kilmer   At the start of August, Storm Floris left destruction it its wake. In the [...]

'Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by a sight so touching' - William Wordsworth.   Is there anything indeed [...]

‘June is burstin out all over’ Erupting into nature’s masterpiece, glorious, glorious June. Fortified by cake and chat at a daily ‘bothy’ gathering the gardeners and keen volunteers sally forth. [...]

‘I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose, I would always greet it in a garden’ - Ruth Stout Forty shades of green leaves and dappled sunlit paths to [...]

Spring is nature’s way of saying.... 'Let’s party’ Robin Williams Perfect words to describe how eager we all are to welcome Spring. Every good party starts with planning and preparation, [...]

O wind! If winter comes can spring be far behind (Ode to the West Wind – Percy Bysshe Shelley) The Walled Garden’s year began under the care of new Head [...]

Looking back and a fond farewell to The Walled Garden Ed Bollom - Head Gardener   At this time of year, as we reach the winter solstice, I always think [...]

November comes And November goes, With the last red berries And the first white snows. With night coming early And dawn coming late, And ice in the bucket And frost [...]

  We started off 2024 season somewhat licking our wounds from our banks being battered from one of the wettest winters in living memory. Every beat had suffered changes to [...]