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24 Apr 2020

National Gardening Week

Green thumbs get your spades ready! National Gardening Week runs from 27 April until 3 May.

A blackbird perches on the very top of a spruce pine. Its bright yellow beak is wide open in song.

A spotter’s guide to spring: for families

We’ve put together a spring spotter’s sheet which you can use in your garden, on your daily walk or (if you can’t get out) from your window – see how many things you can spot!

A view of the kitchen garden on a sunny day at Holmwood, with the house in the background. Several beds are laid out and surrounded by flowering borders. Currant frames can be seen at the centre. Several scarecrows stand in various beds.
21 Apr 2020

Kitchen gardens from around the Trust

Many of us enjoy growing herbs or vegetables at home, but here we take a look at some of our places that grow produce on possibly a larger scale!

A woman feeds vegetables to two woolly sheep in a grassy field. She smiles towards the camera.
20 Apr 2020

Through the eyes of: an outdoor volunteer at St Abb’s Head NNR

When Margaret Renstead first volunteered for the Trust in the 1990s, she didn’t dream she’d still be volunteering nearly 30 years later!

A grey seal lying on rocks with a flipper over its face.
20 Apr 2020

St Abb’s Head through the seasons: autumn

Enjoy a stunning gallery of autumn wildlife, captured by award-winning nature photographer Laurie Campbell at St Abb’s Head National Nature Reserve.

A black and white photograph of a lady dressed in black and wearing a large locket, sitting with a small dog on her lap. The dog has very large ears! The lady is looking down at the dog with an affectionate look on her face.
16 Apr 2020

Camera-ready canines

We present some of our favourite carte-de-visites from the Brodie Castle collection, all featuring dogs!

Several yachts in an island natural harbour on a sunny day.
15 Apr 2020

Isle of Canna – a view from the harbour

Managing the harbour on Canna during the coronavirus pandemic and how the island is coping with the isolation.

A stone marking the graves of several clans stands beside a narrow path on a field. Heather has been laid at the base. Several other grave markers can be seen in the background.
15 Apr 2020

Rare Gaelic songs to mark the Culloden commemoration

Listen to rare snippets of haunting Gaelic songs inspired by the Jacobite cause, as we prepare to mark the anniversary of the Battle of Culloden on Thursday 16 April.