Every time I walk through the garden I see something else in flower that wasn’t apparent yesterday- and now the azaleas are blooming the...

In the front section of our conservatory, attached to the house, several tender rhododendrons have been flowering for the past fortnight....

Now the early magnolias are over, helped by the fierce winds, we are just beginning the second act in the garden. Rhododendron falconeri...

We've decided to hold a guided garden walk this coming Saturday 30 March at 2pm because the magnolias are magnificent at the moment. Also...

We have been working hard to get everything ready for opening on Thursday- 21 March- as always. The huge Gibson crosses are already in...

This week we are emptying the pond- never seen so many leaves, branches, twigs and gravel washed into it in previous years. It's a huge...

Have the last of the gales now gone or will there be more? Is this the turning point to the beginning of spring? The ground is sodden...

The last two weeks have been exhausting- strong winds and gales seemingly continuous and almost 4 inches of rain since Sunday! After each...

December has been rather wet and miserable but we have gradually worked our way round the garden filling the leaf bins and picking up...

I'm just home from hospital having my 4th and final new knee. The colours visible from the house took me outside yesterday and made...

A quiet day after the rain and winds with time to reflect on the autumn colour. As you come up the drive Magnolia kobus is overpowering,...

The garden is showing some good colour as it gets colder. Obvious contenders include the acers and Parrotia persica as well as the...

What a lot of rain! We had 4 inches in less than 24 hours but generally the garden stood up well. The burn became a raging torrent...

We have reached the autumn equinox and the time when Glenarn has always closed until next spring. Thanks to everyone who has supported us...

We have just returned from 5 days on Iona, looking like a tropical island in the recent sunshine. It was a great break from the seemingly...

We had a weekend of drystone walling earlier this month, resulting in a fine new piece of wall by the West of Scotland Drystone Walling...

On a pouring wet morning, when all is grey, the eucryphias round the garden are beacons of light in August. Deciduous E glutinosa by the...

We are just home from a few days in Wester Ross. While Mike and grandson Callum climbed munros I visited Inverewe on the first day-...

At the moment there are two really special rhododendrons in flower- end of July into August is pretty late for flowers but they both love...

Bright spots of colour draw attention to certain plants as we work around the garden. The holly-like Desfontania spinosa - though I...