Samantha's Garden's - gardening, landscape and design

17/06/2026

17/06/2026

Benson Boone

17/06/2026

As part of the Riverwoods Blueprint Project, Buglife is proud to bring you Riverfly Monitoring Training in Musselburgh, Midlothian.

Become a certified citizen scientist and learn the skills needed to monitor water quality in your local river.
📆 Date: Saturday 20 June 2026
🕙 Time: 10:00 - 13:00
📌 Location: Musselburgh, Midlothian

❓ Are you interested in knowing more about how your local river ticks?
❓ Want to join a growing network of citizen scientists?

Then this training is for you!

📈 Buglife is offering free and supported training. This is a one day training course with a half day "classroom based" theory and half day practical river session. Online theory training is included with various dates and times available.

ℹ️ To find out more and book your place please contact Buglife Guardians of our Rivers: Next Steps Conservation Officer, Elaine Rainey by email at [email protected]
Scottish Wildlife Trust The National Lottery Heritage Fund

17/06/2026

14/06/2026

With The Rauceby Asylum Cemeteries – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

14/06/2026

Garden maintenance including weeding boarders, edging, grass cutting, pruning, planting, watering, h

30/05/2026

We're deeply saddened by the loss of Matthew Biggs VHM, the much-loved gardener and broadcaster who devoted more than half a century to sharing his passion for plants.

Across five decades, Matthew helped define public understanding of horticulture in the UK, bridging the worlds of professional practice, gardening history and everyday experience with rare generosity and warmth.

Best known to millions as a long‑serving panellist on BBC Radio 4’s Gardeners’ Question Time, Matthew – a trained plantsman, natural teacher, and meticulous historian of horticulture, has also been a powerful advocate for gardens as places of refuge and healing.

In December 2020 he was diagnosed with bowel cancer and spoke openly about the experience and the role that gardening played in sustaining him through treatment. While receiving treatment at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre in Hertfordshire, he led a major project to transform the hospital’s outdoor spaces into a genuine healing garden.

His career was crowned with the award of the Victoria Medal of Honour in May 2026. Limited to 63 living recipients at any one time, the VMH is reserved for gardeners who have made an exceptional and lasting impact on the practice, promotion or understanding of gardening.

Our thoughts are with Matthew's family and with everyone who knew and loved him.

Read more about Matthew Biggs' life and lasting legacy: https://www.rhs.org.uk/about-us/articles/matthew-biggs

23/05/2026

The Scotch Argus is one of the 60 beautiful butterflies found across the UK. Will it be Britain's Favourite Butterfly?

19/12/2024

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power combined with self gain
Does humanity exist or is it self Gain
Are you better than anyone else or does everything happen for a reason?