Links & Information

Gardening

Caithness has several Gardening Clubs
Find them in Social Clubs for contacts.  We have not yet set much up for them as yet.

Gardening In Caithness With Mike Clark

Royal Botanic Gardens - Edinburgh

Seed Germination Database - Perennials
Provides instructions for germinating seeds of hundreds of perennial plants.

The annual/biennial seed germination database is available at http://www.anet.com/~manytimes/page32.htm  and is broken up into A-D, E-M, and N-Z. Common names are given with these listings; soon you too will know how to germinate an eyeball plant.

If that's just not enough germination for you, there's a one-page reference to tree and shrub germination ( http://www.anet.com/~manytimes/page64.htm  sources of seed envelopes, and a variety of articles on germination and gardening in general.

Window Box
Guide To Growing Great Vegetables
The Chef's Garden
Vegetable Nutrition Facts
Growing Hydroponic Tomatoes
Greenhouse Vegetable List Of References
The Vegetable Patch
Garden Visit & Travel Guide to the Highlands
Garden Web Glossary  Over 3700 terms in horticulture and landscape architecture
Neo Flora - World's largest Plant Database - they say

Royal Horticultural Society
 Massive resource.
Garden Visit
Garden Guides
Garden Net 
Directory of sites with message boards

Gardening-UK  Gateway to thousands of sites.

Gardeners World  BBC 
Gardening World
 Guide to garden centres, suppliers, events, books etc.
GardenWeb
Herb Society
Horticultural Trades Association
National Herb Centre

Palm Centre

Plant Centre

Pterra Pots, shopping, ideas, etc.

Rare Plants

Garden Visit & Travel Guide to the Lowlands

History of Garden Design and Garden Designers

Uk Database of Historical Parks & Gardens - 3000 sites

National Gardens Scheme - Gardens open to the public  -many for a few days per year only.

Soil Association

Botanic Garden of Smith College
British Mycological Society
Explore Edinburgh Group
Gardening Scotland 2001
Glasgow University Taxonomy website
Oxford Forestry Institute
OFI Publications
The Tree Flora of Sabah and Sarawak
Pukeiti Rhododendron Trust
Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society
Rhododendron Research Project
St Andrews Botanic Garden
The Scottish Agricultural College
Scottish Natural Heritage
UK Sources for Biological Pest Controls

Postcode Plants Database.

Royal Horticultural Society.

Beechgrove Garden

HDRA - The Organic Organisation.

Scottish Rock Garden Club.

North of England Horticultural Society.

Crarae Gardens.

Inverewe Garden.

National Botanic Garden of Wales.

The Eden Project.

The Cottage Garden Society

The National Gardens Scheme

Flowers & Plants Association

Humour In Gardening
Garden Blethers
A few essays in gardening with the information you need but to make you think.

See Also
Environmental Links

Gardening Scotland 2005
Friday June 3rd to Sunday June 5th at the Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston
A STUNNING new Lupin with pale-coloured buds which open into almost black flowers will go on sale to the public for the first time at Scotland's national gardening and outdoor living show. The Lupin, which has been named 'Midnight', is expected to generate widespread interest when it is launched at Gardening Scotland 2005.

The plant has been raised by Bill and Rose Dodds of Auchendrane Lupins, near Ayr, and it is just one of the new plants which will make their debut at Gardening Scotland 2005.

Also making their first appearance will be Primulas from Christie's Nursery in Kirriemuir.

The Candelabra and Nivalis Primulas were collected by owner Ian Christie in the Sichuan and Quinghi provinces of China last year and are entirely new to cultivation. Christie's will also be showing Meconopsis Cookei 'Old Rose', a perennial Meconopsis with deep rose pink flowers. Ian says: "I think this is one of the finest plant introductions of a generation and we now have sufficient supplies to put it on widespread sale".

Gardening Scotland 2005 will run from Friday June 3rd to Sunday June 5th at the Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston, near Edinburgh. The show is now in its sixth year and has a reputation for horticultural excellence, which is reinforced by the numbers of Chelsea exhibitors, including many gold medal winners, who travel north for the three-day event.

Tickets to Gardening Scotland cost £14 but an offer on advance tickets has already produced record sales. Tickets are available priced £12 from the ticket hotline on 0906 701 2000 or online from www.gardeningscotland.co.uk. Alternatively they can be purchased by post from: Gardening Scotland, 2 Ingliston Gardens, Ingliston, Newbridge, Midlothian, EH28 8NB.