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Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society

All images                Clive Davies except where otherwise attributed
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Latest News

      Winter  Fruit Pruning Workshop
      Sat. 4th Feb. - 10am-noon
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      Annual Potato Day
      Sunday 26 February 11am-3pm
      Bridgend Allotments
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     New Caley merchandise for sale
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     Spring Flower Show  2012
     Volunteers Required
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   The next Winter Lecture will be on:-
     Tuesday 7th February
Joe Mcindoe, Mill Garden Centre, Armdale.
‘Gardening in a Hostile Enviroment’

Photographic Competition
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      the weekly allotment report
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     Apple Day at the RBGE
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     The new Plant & Grow CD is now available
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     Spring Flower Show 2012
     Schedule and Entry Form click here

     Members Garden Open Day

      Cornwall Study Tour
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     by Tom Mabbott

     Open Day at the Allotment
     If you missed it then see what
      you missed
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     You can now ‘have your say’
      on the Caley Blog  
     http://rchsblog.wordpress.com

     Ken Cox questionnaire

     Preview September  2011
     
     Award Ceremony 2010
     Held on 1st March 2011

     The NEW Grow and Learn
     web site is now available
      www.rchsgrowlearn.co.uk    

      RCHS Heritage Lottery Project
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     Demonstration Allotment

Diary Dates

     Winter Talk Programme

History

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                                and details
     Timeline

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     Two Hundred Years of History

Gallery

     Gardens of Balcarres Castle

     To Flanders in the Steps of
     Patrick Neil.

     Kellie Castle Walled Garden

     Our Bicentenary Year

     A G M Awards

  
Archive Gallery

     Northumberland Tour
     
     Inwood Garden

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EdinburghLife Wildflower of the Week by Stan da Prato

Teasses Gardens Nr Ceres

By kind permission of Sir Fraser and Lady Morrison

Purchase further copies of
The Caley Gardener - £4 inc P & P
Send cheque to:Alison Murison,
17,Jordan Lane,Edinburgh,EH10 4RA
Click here for Stan’s previous entries

The Caleyday trip on   Wednesday 27th July

To   

      The Dundee Botanic Garden

and

Scottish Crop Research Institute

(James Hutton Institute)

  Click here for pictorial record

A wonderful all day visit to two gardens in Fife

On Thursday 21st  July 2011

A pot of The Caley, the autumn gentian named after the RCHS for its bicentenary year, bred by Ian McNaughton and exhibited by Beryl,  took the Forrest Medal at the Scottish Rock Garden  Club's autumn show on 24 September.

Winter heliotrope, Petasites fragrans, is not shown in all wildflower books as it is not native. It is local in Scotland, more widespread in England, in locations where the ground is damp and often in woods. It is scented though relatively few flowers are produced especially in shade. Apparently our plants are all male so they do not set seed. However it can be invasive spreading by underground rhizomes. The rounded leaves show its relationship to the much larger butterbur but are present all year. It is sometimes known as sweet colt’s foot.