How sad it was to read that the Dundee Botanic Garden is looking at closure and its skilled garden staff amongst 190 others across the whole University of Dundee facing redundancy as part of measures to cut costs. If the proposal was to go ahead, what a loss to the Dundee community and visitor experience…
Month: June 2026
June update in the veg plot
As much as it’s part of my living to encourage more people to garden, and in particular grow their own veg, I’m fully aware of the commitment it requires. Hence this is first time in a few years I’ve been making the required effort myself. There’s a couple of reasons for this, I find…
Dementia-friendly gardening
When I first started my gardening career all these years ago, pretty much thirty-six years to the day, never in a million could I have imagined just what it would go on to give me, considering at that point I shared the stereotypical attitude of many that gardening was only about grass cutting and weeding….
Evergreen shrub pruning
I’ve spent quite a bit of time this spring focusing on my shrub plants. Lots of these do their thing at the end of the winter and into spring before they drift off to obscurity and to the back of our minds as we instead focus more on the likes of our fruit and vegetables,…
Brian Cunningham 