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| Gardening Scotland 2007  Gardening Scotland 2007 will take place this year from June 1 until June 3 at The Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston, Edinburgh. It will feature a diverse range of innovative and inspiration show gardens, including the 'Re-Use, Recycle & Retire' Garden created by Oatridge College for the gardeners' charity, Perennial and the "Room with a View" garden by designers Stone, Wood, Water & Light. Cox TO most people it would seem like an impossible task, but for Carol Gallagher McCulloch it is simply child's play. The Dunblane-based designer has undertaken the huge challenge of creating, not just one, but two show gardens at Gardening Scotland 2007.In demonstrating how she will turn two bare patches of earth into mini Edens in just eight days, Carol had a little help from a giant snakes and ladders set, a toddler's paddling pool and her own six-year-old daughter, Holly. At the same time as she is wrestling with grassy reptiles, Carol will also be creating the Garden of the Future for Scottish Water. With hotter summers, lower rainfall and predictions of more climate change to come, then gardeners are going to have to become water-wise if they want their gardens to flourish. After the Show, the Garden of the Future will be donated to Barnardo's - Gardening Scotland 2007's nominated charity - for use in a garden project it is creating at a children's nursery. Three students completing the new Diploma in Garden Design at the RBGE, Cox Muir & Erskine, will build and design a garden titled 'Wet and Wildness'. Colin Bell and students from the Scottish Agricultural College are set to make a feature that comes to life at night with plants, artwork and surfaces that reflect pale light in the 'Urban Moonlight' garden. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Exhibition News :: home page |