New Beginnings
A new decade needs to be approached with a degree of organisation. Consequently, on our first day of volunteering in 2020, the garden team thought it would be a good idea to clean out...
Bannockburn House Scotland Blog
Deck the halls with boughs of holly
As I write this, the late autumn rain is falling, and the wind is blowing hard but in the next few weeks we will reach the Winter Solstice – the turning point of the...
Dull November brings the blast, then the leaves are falling fast . . .
November is the month of geese as they fly south to reach our country for a warmer winter just at the time of year when we begin to feel cold and find frosty mornings...
Leopards, Toads and Scarlet Elf Cups
I have to admit that October is my favourite month of the year . . . The colour shades of autumn Once passed the Autumn equinox the encroaching winter darkness begins to make its...
WANTED: Partridge for a Pear Tree
September is the ninth month of the year and is usually called the harvest month. Accordingly, we have been harvesting some of our fruit and vegetables but not always at the time of our...
Bannockburn House Summer Fayre 19 a Brilliant Success
What an amazing event, thank you to all our amazing volunteers who put in so much hard work to make sure this event could happen. Both Saturday and Sunday were very well attended, and...
The Last of the Summer Wine
It was only as I switched on the kitchen light the other night, about 10pm, that I realised the long summer evenings are coming to a close as the year turns onwards through the...
Summertime & the Potatoes are Flowering
Ripen in the Sun In every garden and municipal border roses, irises, clematis and lupins are flowering, vegetables are maturing and in sunny corners, the blackcurrants are beginning to bruise over as the deep...
Electric Excitement at Bannockburn House as Defibrillator Gifted
Volunteers and the board of the Bannockburn House Trust are delighted and extremely grateful to Greg Farquharson, Karen Farquharson, Danny Letford and Kevin Wilson who have raised enough funds by running the Stirling marathon...
Are the Fairies ‘Singin’ in the Rain’?
Unusually, for early June it has been raining a lot recently but when out and about, it seems to me that many of our wild animals don’t seem to mind this too much and...
May ‘Blossom Time’
One of the abiding joys of Spring is the fact that many deciduous trees waken up from their winter dormancy and burst into flower. They are festooned in fragile blossom and look absolutely stunning...
