Floral clock designer announces retirement
THE main designer of a floral clock on Edinburgh’s Princes Street has announced his retirement. David Dorward has overseen the Princes Street Gardens’ floral clock…
Category: Gardening
To know your soil is to know your garden
IF trial and error is a reflection of having an inquiring mind, when it comes to one’s garden, Dr Liz Lakin is all for it.…
The promise of a rose garden
THE way Sheena Pool describes it, it’s the epitome of simplicity to plant and maintain a rose garden. If the name sounds familiar, she was…
Views sought on allotments provision
TODAY is the final day of a consultation exercise, to help shape Scotland’s allotments policies. The Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee of the Scottish…
Local food growing receives boost in Glasgow
PARKLAND, disused bowling greens, derelict sites and expanded allotments space have all been recruited to create over 250 new plots across Glasgow to enable local…
Planning for garden essentials
WHEN designing a garden from scratch, there are some ‘hard’ elements that merit being thought about in advance. As described elsewhere on this website, a…
Designing and operating a garden compost heap
ARGUABLY, the most important decision about operating a compost heap – besides the decision to actually set one up – is where to locate it.…
