Brian Cunningham

Lately there’s been an unexpected visitor in the walled garden where I work at Scone Palace as head gardener, a lovely wee cat. You’re probably wondering

I’m gutted, it was World Naked Gardening Day last week there and I missed it! I quite like these celebrations designed to raise our awareness but I’m not

I can understand why not every gardener has the desire to do their own composting at home, despite the sound reasoning. I guess there’s a presumption that

Sometimes there’s so much to do, you don’t quite know where to start. I’m feeling this way in the garden just now. But this is one of the rare times when

I will confess to being a bit of a dreamer sometimes. I do believe all the world would be better off if we all enjoyed a bit of gardening. I’m not a big

I do love my wife. She’s such a wonderful human. Kind and caring she’s my best mate, a beautiful lady who’s given me the most wonderful family and is the

I like taking advantage of the cold days and dark nights at this time of year when I can’t get out to the garden. I use the time to catch up with

The garden has been steadily winding down since September and the work I’ve mostly been doing up until now has been general last maintenance and tidying

The main focus of my work out in the garden this week has been in the kitchen garden. You may have also heard this part of the garden being referred to as

Tomorrow sees the start of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, the 26th meeting of the countries that signed the initial Framework

I generally find us gardeners a friendly bunch anyway but since I’ve started presenting on Beechgrove and writing a column for this brilliant magazine

I can still remember the first packet of seeds I sowed. They were Marigolds and came free with a gardening magazine along with the seed tray and enough

I never really had a clue what I was going to do with my life when it was time to leave school and grow up. I can still remember the conversation with my guidance teacher when the penny dropped that one day I would have to find something else to do other than just turning up at school.

This will probably come as no surprise if I was to tell you that, I love gardening, writes Brian Cunningham.

Gardening with The Courier has a new friendly face, our  'ginger gairdner' is none other than Beechgrove Gardens presenter and Scone Palace head gardener,