by GillianPolley | Feb 21, 2014 | Colour, colour in the garden, Cornus, Edinburgh, February, focal points in the garden, Plants, Polley Garden Design, Spring, winter colour
Is your garden looking rather drab and tired today at the end of winter? Then add some colour with Cornus or dogwoods, a varied and good value group of plants. They are tough useful shrubs and trees, many shrubs with strongly coloured stems in coral red, orange,...
by GillianPolley | Feb 5, 2014 | bulbs, Cambo House, Cambo House Gardens, Design, February, Galanthus, Plants, Polley Garden Design, Scottish Snowdrop Festival 2014, Snowdrops, Spring, winter colour, winter scent in the garden
If you want confirmation that spring is on the far horizon, seeing snowdrops in flower is a good sign. To see a mass of snowdrops on a roadside bank or in a woodland is a magical moment. To find out where you can see them near where you live, go to the website below...
by GillianPolley | Nov 6, 2013 | Acers, autumn colour, bare root plants, Birds, bulbs, Colour, Edinburgh, Grasses, Green house, Hedges, herbaceous perennials, insects, Jobs to do in the garden, Plants, Polley Garden Design, Roses, shrubs, Snowdrops, Spring, trees, wind rock, winter colour
As I write this, it is raining hard, the wind is blowing strongly around our garden and autumn leaves flying everywhere. The first frosts of the season are about to arrive, the clocks have gone back and it is time for hearty autumn and winter soups to warm you up...
by GillianPolley | Aug 5, 2013 | August, bulbs, containers, Edinburgh, Hedges, Jobs to do in the garden, Lawns, Plants, Polley Garden Design, Roses, seats in the garden, Spring, summer
In July we finally had some lovely hot summer weather and our lawn turned brown which we have not seen for a few years. The recent thunderstorms at the end of the hot weather and more rain since is gradually returning our lawn back to green. It has just been great...
by GillianPolley | Jun 13, 2013 | containers, herbaceous perennials, Jobs to do in the garden, June, Laburnum, Lawns, Polley Garden Design, Ponds, Roses, scent, shrubs, Spring, summer, trees
Summer has finally come to Edinburgh at long last and plants are making up for lost time with some unusual flowering combinations in the last month. The Laburnum in our garden is in full flower just now and looking beautiful with a soft subtle scent. I would like to...
by GillianPolley | May 6, 2013 | Binny Plants, Birds, bulbs, Chelsea Flower Show 2013, Edinburgh, garden design, Gardening Scotland 2013, herbaceous perennials, Jobs to do in the garden, Kevock Garden Plants, Lawns, May, Polley Garden Design, shrubs, Spring, Vegetable growing, Viburnums
Finally, it feels spring is here, and that sharp bite in the wind has mellowed at last. But watch out for frosts until the end of the month! Later this month, after flowering prune back into shape, Weigelas, Deutzias, Ribes, Forsythia and Viburnum bodnantense. Split...
