Filming of the last Beechgrove Garden episode of the year took place the other week, currently being aired this weekend across BBC channels. That now sees the 49th series completed of this programme first started off in 1978 by a couple of industry respected gardeners in the great Jim McColl and George Barron, who used…
Month: September 2026
Gardening as a career
This week, I joined the many parents saying goodbye to their children as they pack up their belongings and head off to university for the first time. A time of mixed emotions I guess being both one of the proudest but tinged with a touch sadness. As you can imagine it was emotional with long…
Gardening magazines, podcasts and memories
I enjoy reading, it’s one of those pastimes where a good book can help provide a bit of escapism at bedtime or expand the mind on a particular subject, it won’t surprise you that gardening is mine with a fine collection of books developing on the shelves at home. Mrs C often rolls her eyes…
Late summer perennial power
Our gardens are being fuelled by perennial power at the moment! Of course, shrubs such as Cotinus with its smoke-like plumes of flowers also add sparkles of interest and some of those woody plants that flowered earlier in the year back in spring are rewarding us with a second display, this time of colourful berries…
