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The working retail nursery, with spectacular views over the Beauly valley and Strathfarrar hills, has experts on-hand to answer any gardening questions you may have. Situated at the head of Loch Fyne, overlooking the gorgeous Glen Fyne, this is a garden centre and a day out wrapped in one. November, very often the wettest month of the year, and the frosts have arrived, also a chance of the first snowfall of Winter if you also live in the North east of Scotland. E. Ewen, "Sights, smells and sounds in the medieval town", in E. J Cowan and L. Henderson, A History of Everyday Life in Medieval Scotland (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011), ISBN 0748629505, p. 114.

Fruit: Gooseberries, Currants, Wild Strawberries as well as soft fruit trees such as Apple, Cherry, Pears and Plums The majority of trees they sell are also planted in peat-free compost, so it’s a bit of good for the planet and a bit of feel-good for you, too. As East Lothian’s premier plant retailer, Smeaton Nursery Gardens knows a thing or two about making a garden bloom. E. Foyster, "Sensory experiences: smells, sounds and touch", in E. A. Foyster and C. A. Whatley, eds, A History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1600 to 1800 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010), ISBN 0748619658, p. 222. If there has been heavy snowfall, brush it off the conifers, hedging and Box topiary to prevent damage.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 Gardens, as designated spaces for planting, first came to Scotland with Christianity and monasticism from the sixth century. The monastery of Iona had such a garden for medicinal herbs and other plants and tended by an Irish gardener from the time of Columba (521–597). [1] By the late Middle Ages gardens, or yards, around medieval abbeys, castles and houses were formal and in the European tradition of herb garden, kitchen garden and orchard. [2] Such gardens are known to have been present at Pluscarden Priory, Beauly Priory and Kinloss Abbey and created for the Bishop of Moray at Spynie in the mid-sixteenth century. [3] The gardens of castles and estate houses were often surrounded by defensive walls and they sometimes adjoined a hunting park. [2] Urban houses had gardens as part of burgage plots that stretched behind houses, often used to produce vegetables such as kale and beans. [4] Neatly clipped topiary will add year round structure. At Parkhead in Argyll & Bute, clipped forms take centre stage with boxwood, yew, beech, hornbeam, holly, laurel are laid out in a strictly symmetrical garden of cones, cubes, columns, domes and pristine parterres.

Gardening in Scotland, the design of planned spaces set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature in Scotland began in the Middle Ages. It is a profession which offers a diversity of jobs to suit a wide range of talents. The profession also needs researchers, technologists, marketing experts and managers to shape the industry for the future.

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M. Willes, The Making of the English Gardener (Yale University Press, 2011), ISBN 0300165331, p. 274. If you have the space, a collection of pines and conifers (the word comes from the Latin “to bear cones”) will give year-round color and structure. The native Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) can reach a towering 36 meters (about 118 feet) if left to its own devices. Create a Micro Climate Above: Towering yews; see more at Gardening 101: Yew Trees. Photograph by Britt Willoughby Dyer. They have the expertise and knowledge to advise locals on what to plant and how to care for their gardens in the Highlands, particularly when it comes to the climate there. In nurseries across the UK, leading growers are already tending to the plants that they will bring to next year’s Show to provide gardeners with inspiration, information and top quality plants.

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. 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 🙂a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u F. Jamieson, "Gardening and landscapes" in M. Lynch, ed., The Oxford Companion to Scottish History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), ISBN 0-19-211696-7, pp. 258–60.

The RSPB also provide advice on things like siting and maintaining much smaller water features and creating a good birdbath. Don’t discount the value of having something as simple as a small dish filled with clean water and pebbles – even our smallest creatures need access to drinking water. Just make sure to clean such a dish out regularly! Tender Annuals are generally a bit of a slog in the colder parts of Scotland; one tries to get them going by sowing them maybe a week or two after the recommended general UK sowing time to get a little warmth, either under cover or in open soil, and they still dribble along; producing masses of leaf, and maybe a feeble bloom or two around the end of August despite tiddling ’em with sulphate of potash to encourage flowers. A month after one was hoping for glories!

Create Drama with Topiary

Gardening began to be a major pursuit of the working and middle classes in the twentieth century. In the inter-war period there was a concerted attempt to encourage working-class men to abandon their traditional leisure activities in favour of activity in the garden, which was often given over to vegetable growing. Gardens were a deliberate part of the council housing schemes of the period, although the high density housing used in Scotland meant that there was less provision on the garden-suburb model than in England. Allotments were seen as one solution and by 1939 there were over 20,000 in Scotland. It was among the middle classes that domestic gardening took off in this period, fuelled by horticultural shows, open gardens, items in newspapers and increasing use of landscape features. [23] This month we really do have to concentrate on getting the garden and greenhouse prepared for Winter before the weather condition starts to put us off altogether. In 2017 they won the Lord Provost Trophy for Best Garden Design at Dundee Flower Show. They also won the People’s Choice Award, an RHS Premium Award certificate and a special award for outstanding Garden Design. Award-winning gardening? Say no more.