Events
Home Farm B & B
Scottish Summer Garden Festival – Virtual: Wildflower patches
June 13th, 2020 - August 15th, 2020Having closed the business during lockdown, a lot of time have been spent in the garden. As an on-going project, we're re-doing our wildflower patches to attract bees and butterflies and other insects and wildlife. We’ll be posting updates from the garden, commencing 13 June between 10:00-16:00 and then every second Friday, starting 19 June during the Festival. So check-in on our Facebook page for the latest on our progress.
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Home Farm B & B
Scottish Summer Garden Festival – Virtual: Edible Plants
June 13th, 2020 - August 15th, 2020Having closed the business during lockdown, a lot of time have been spent in the garden. As an on-going project, we've planted new blueberry bushes, rhubarb and herbs. For the first time ever, we've also got indoor tomato plants! We’ll be posting updates from the garden, commencing 13 June between 10:00-16:00 and then every second Friday, starting 19 June during the Festival. So check-in on our Facebook page for the latest on our progress.
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Home Farm B & B
Scottish Summer Garden Festival – Virtual: – New Plants
June 13th, 2020 - August 15th, 2020Having closed the business during lockdown, a lot of time have been spent in the garden. As an on-going project, we've planted new trees and shrubs with more to come. We’ll be posting updates from the garden, commencing 13 June between 10:00-16:00 and then every second Friday, starting 19 June during the Festival. So check-in on our Facebook page for the latest on our progress.
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Scottish Summer Garden Festival – Virtual: Sights of the season
June 13th, 2020 - August 15th, 2020Enjoy the sights of the season at home. Take a look at the summer highlights in bloom across the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Watch our short films, below. We will be sharing more as the bloom unfolds.
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Dawyck Botanic Garden
Scottish Summer Garden Festival – Virtual: Dawyck summer from home
June 13th, 2020 - August 15th, 2020Experience a Dawyck summer from home and enjoy the spectacular seasonal colour unfurling at this world renowned arboretum. Watch our short films, below. We will be sharing more as the bloom unfolds.
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Benmore Botanic Garden
Scottish Summer Garden Festival – Virtual: See the hillside slopes
June 13th, 2020 - August 15th, 2020See the hillside slopes of Benmore Botanic Garden burst into summer colour from your home. Watch our short films, below. We will be sharing more as the bloom unfolds.
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Logan Botanic Garden
Scottish Summer Garden Festival – Virtual: Step into summer
June 13th, 2020 - August 15th, 2020Step into summer at Scotland's most exotic garden. See what’s in bloom and enjoy the beauty of Logan Botanic Garden from your home. Watch our short films, below. We will be sharing more as the bloom unfolds.
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Little Sparta
Scottish Summer Garden Festival – Virtual: This Week in the Garden
June 19th, 2020 - August 15th, 2020Over the summer Little Sparta pre-recorded garden tours with head gardener George Gilliland will be posted every Thursday on our our Instagram and Twitter. Each week you’ll encounter a different artwork from the garden. You can 'join' the tour anytime by going to our social media, see @littlespartaihf or #littlespartagardentour.
Little Sparta is the garden of poet Ian Hamilton Finlay. It is his greatest work of art. The themes in the artworks — history and mythology, politics and warfare, philosophy and poetry — all combine and overlap to inform one another. The garden is meant to be seen, read and understood as a single piece. Follow our garden tour series for a remote yet personal tour of Little Sparta.
Cambo Gardens
Scottish Summer Garden Festival – Virtual: Potager tour with Shelley
June 25th, 2020 - August 15th, 2020Take a virtual tour of our Potager with Shelley one of our gardeners here at Cambo and discover the array of colours and plant varieties we have ben working with this season. The garden design is based on the Damien Hurst rainbow design and has inspired Shelley in celebration of key workers to enjoy when guidance allows. Join her for a tour of these plants with planting principles, advice on companion plants, tips and tricks of how to keep your garden looking at its best and much more.
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Dunvegan Castle and Gardens
Scottish Summer Garden Festival – Virtual: Dunvegan Castle and Garden/What’s happening in the garden this month
July 1st, 2020 - August 15th, 2020Come experience what our gardeners have been up to this month behind closed gates. This virtual event focuses on bed preparations and the planting of half-hardy plants for the summer display. Available on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Candide.
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