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...

The red form of Primula florindae seems to have taken over the gravel area behind the house- it's north facing and only gets sun in the...

It was lovely to return to Glenarn from a week on the Mull of Kintyre to find there had been over 2 inches of rain and the burn was...

I'm always surprised to see Lomatia ferruginia in flower- it seems quite exotic but has been growing happily here in the Rock Garden for...

Almost all of our roses are climbers and suddenly seem to appear in mid June. Paul's Himalayan musk soars way above us near the...

Some years ago I ordered lily seed from the Scottish Rock Garden Club seed exchange. I was told it is the best way to avoid the lily...

Not really complaining but am pleased to see it's much greyer today- the bright sunshine lifts our spirits but seems to drain the garden...

Generally a poor year for magnolias but right now M wilsonii is flowering as well as M sieboldii ( the flowers sit side ways, looking at...

We have it every year these days, a really dry period just when all the plants are putting on their new growth. There was plenty of rain...