Blog post by Volunteer Christina From the 11th until the 15th of November 2021 the garden will be decorated in Poppies of various mediums, and colours to remember all who have served, some of whom made the ultimate sacrifice and…
Category: events
Moth Workshop at the Garden
Volunteer Siobhan attended the July 2021 Moth Workshop and has shared her experience here On Friday 9th July at 10am I attended a moth activity session at the Ninewells Community garden to celebrate national moth night. The Event was hosted…
U3A Gardening Group Visit
Volunteer Christina has written a blog about her visit to the garden with the University of the Third Age Gardening Club. When I retired, as well as joining the Ninewells Community Garden I joined the U3A, the University of the…
Green Health Craft Club
Crafty Half hour- PLUS This blog is by Gill Aitchison, one of the Crafty Half hour participants Joining a new club can make you feel both nervous and excited. Pre Covid restrictions I would probably pluck up the courage to…
Green Health Week
Volunteer Christina reflects on a busy Green Health Week (8th to 16th May 2021). Well this morning I am having a well earned rest after Green Health week. With so much going on I couldn’t fit everything I wanted to…
Botanical Migrations
Volunteer Christina contributed to the recipes for the Botanical Migrations exhibition and has written about it for us. At the end of last year while walking past Ninewells garden I saw facilitator Helena on the phone so just waved rather…
Christina’s Big Garden Birdwatch 2021
Volunteer Christina has written us a blog about her Big Garden Birdwatch this year. Last year I was up at The Ninewells garden with a group of volunteers and friends in the leaf room counting birds as part of RSPB…
Get counting! The RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch
This year the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch will take place between 29th and 31st January 2021, under slightly different circumstances. This is the world's largest bird survey - join in if you can! Last year NCG hosted a group of…
Online Workshops (part 2)
Bee on a thistle We've been continuing the Online Workshop series, you can catch up any you missed, or any you would like to see again by following the links below, the previous workshop links are in this blog, and…
Flower bed
Katherine Fay Allan's 'the rest of us, we just go gardening' has headed off to Edinburgh to spend time on display at the Royal Scottish Academy during February 2020. More information about the artist and the inspiration behind the piece…
