by Catherine Bradley | Mar 29, 2026 | Conservation, Gardens, History, Latest News
March Brings Breezes Loud and Shrill, Stirs the Dancing Daffodil The first daffodils are always such a welcome sight, a flower of renewal and rebirth. They are impossible to ignore as the neon-yellow-ness of the bobbing flower pierces through any shrubbery, dreary...
by Catherine Bradley | Mar 7, 2026 | Gardens
Winter’s End and Spring’s Beginning This seems to have been a long, dreary winter. For us here, in central Scotland, our photos record some snow and the there were some sunny, frosty days but it is hard to recall them as there has been such a long stretch of...
by marketing | Nov 29, 2025 | Conservation, Events, Gardens, History, Welcome
Welcome to National Tree Week. – Ancient Lime Trees – by Margaret Pollock Next time you visit us, see if you can spot our two majestic rows of veteran Lime trees (Tilia x europaea). They create a wind break and originally marked out some of the...
by marketing | Nov 22, 2025 | Conservation, Events, Gardens, History, Welcome
Welcome to National Tree Week. The Bannockburn House Trust Garden Blog – by Margaret Pollock Trees are special. They store carbon, replenish oxygen and conserve our soil; they give us food and shade, building materials for our homes and irreplaceable habitats...
by marketing | Sep 4, 2025 | Conservation, Events, Gardens, History, Welcome
Riches from the Garden The Bannockburn House Trust Garden Blog – by Margaret Pollock Summer 2025 is proving to be a bumper year for all our crops. In June and July we had mountains of Blackcurrants. Our harvested onions are huge and now we are picking boxes of...
by marketing | Jul 30, 2025 | Conservation, Events, Gardens, History, Welcome
Summertime and the Livin’ is Easy The Bannockburn House Trust Garden Blog – by Margaret Pollock After such a warm, sunny spring this year it has come as no surprise to us that we have a bumper blackcurrant crop this year. Our bushes were planted in the spring of...
