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,…
Tag: gardening
The Seaside Garden
As an island nation with many miles of coast line, some of our fellow gardeners are doing so in some pretty challenging and at times hospitable conditions. I grew up in St Andrews on the east coast of Fife. Although not right down by the beach I still experienced the cold har rolling in from…
Peas and beans in the veg plot
Well, would you believe it. Despite writing in the papers and going on national television via the Beechgrove Garden television programme telling everyone else how important it is to have some horticultural fleece at hand and keep an eye out for damaging frosts on early plantings of veg, I’ve only gone and got caught out…
Brian Cunningham 