Friends Group intent on safeguarding and restoring Granton's 'forgotten' Garden. Local people working together to regenerate the land.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined December 2015
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Short film starring the retired walled garden owner John Smith, garden historian Christopher Dingwall and our volunteers. youtu.be/amTrD-jwID4 Please share @ScotUrbanPast @lostedinburgh @GrantonCC @nourishscotland @ECCommunityGrow @sglheritage @greenspacescot @FCFCGScotland
Many thanks to the staff and kids from Granton Primary School for their curiosity & enthusiasm at the frozen garden. Will not forget pigeon slippers story!
More freezing fieldwork fun with @GrantonPS at @GrantonCastle this morning! 🥶
Discovering local heritage and learning new skills.
Well done to all the P6 pupils, an excellent job in challenging conditions! 👏
Back to earth and gardening after a busy #doorsopenday2019 at #GrantonCastleGarden with over 400 visitors. Many thanks to volunteers!
Today harvesting heritage winter squash and chopping weeds in the community orchard @KSBScotland @thecockburn @GreenerGranton
Back at the garden Weds from 10-12 for the early morning volunteer session. Lots of seed sowing, weeding and path making. Little bit of weaving too if anyone keen Thanks to Ashley Erdman for the beautiful record of progress #GrantonCastleGarden ashleyerdman.xyz/2019/05/06/…
Mark the date Friday 10th May and come along to Granton Castle Garden for our mural making event at #GrantonCastleGarden. Please let us know if you are coming along by booking through eventbrite @TRIMandFOWP @NatGalleriesSco \eventbrite.co.uk/e/anything-…
Huge thanks to Ross MacRae for his beautiful work, worth the wait for this improvised mural helping to bring the history of this medieval walled garden to life. #GrantonCastleGarden @PathsforAll thankyou for the support! @EdinburghShore1 @TRIMandFOWP
Thankyou to the @edinsketcher for this beautiful gift and record of Granton's lost Castle Garden. @lostedinburgh @thecockburn @ArchScot @NatGalleriesSco
A walled oasis being rediscovered in Granton.
Sketches from another day at this emerging gem of a garden down by the north Edinburgh shoreline. Including this stone dovecote at @grantoncastle
Find out more about their open day on May 4th here:
edinburghsketcher.com/2019/0…
A beautifully illustrated guide to Edinburgh's shore and life you might find there. We hope to celebrate the walled garden's historic links with the shore on the 4th May Open Day, when Henry VIII's troops came ashore at Granton Beach to burn Edinburgh @ScotUrbanPast @sglheritage
We're delighted to be able to share a new resource of fun activities which schools, families and groups can do to explore, celebrate and conserve our shoreline!
Click the link to download or to request a paper copy for your group: ow.ly/OvyN30ozBqb
Great to have environmental art and the secret garden atmosphere combine with some amazing results. Thankyou to Mark for the lovely gift of this sketch made at #GrantonCastleGarden in the brisk East wind.
Back on Sunday from 11-1pm, BYO picnic & tattie planting @TRIMandFOWP
Today I have been sketching at @grantoncastlegarden - and experimenting with ink they made from plants grown on site!! Amazing :) #happysketcher
On May 4th there is an open day so you can come and see this beautiful medieval garden for yourself:
facebook.com/GrantonCastleGa…
May 4th Open Day and celebration. Please share and come along! Free events at the secret garden, open from 1-4.30pm @NorthEdNews_NEN @TRIMandFOWP @GrantonCC @Cyrenians1968 @GreenerGranton @EdinburghShore1 @granton_hub @PiltonComHealth #GrantonCastleGarden
Leafy bunting is coming on thanks to @northedinarts quilting group! Present alongside @cassbarron_cb hosting free creative workshops at our next open door day, Saturday 6th April, noon til 2ish @greenspacescot @KSBScotland #GrantonCastleGarden eventbrite.co.uk/e/anything-…
Beautiful artworks created in the first workshop in a series inspired by the fora and fauna of #GrantonCastleGarden @edintoollibrary thankyou for slicing the ash. More to follow with @cassbarron_cb eventbrite.co.uk/o/granton-c…
Please share and visit! @TRIMandFOWP @EdinburghShore1
Leafy bunting creations ahead of the 'rough wooing' May 4th Open Day Celebrations at #GrantonCastleGarden @EdinburghShore1 @northedinarts @PiltonComHealth @NorthEdNews_NEN @NatGalleriesSco please share grantoncastlewalledgarden.wo…
Sunshine today in castle corner lighting up the Singing Hawthorn Tree @KSBScotland vimeo.com/322891358
Back at the garden Weds from 10-12 planting a living willow hedge and more #GrantonCastleGarden @NorthEdNews_NEN @VolunteerEdi
Check out "Anything but Gardening: Botanical stamp making" eventbrite.co.uk/e/anything-… @EventbriteUK
Weds 6th morning session cancellation due to heavy rain forecast.
Back on Sunday from 11-1pm hoping to be planting up our new hugel bed.
Mysterious creations appearing at the secret garden..ahead of our next Open Day on Sat 6th April.
Huge thanks to amazing team from Lothians Conservation Volunteers today. Castle Corner now open to the sunshine and some planting this season in the fertile loam #GrantonCastleGarden Back tomorrow 1-3pm hugel bed building and other things
The first of our new Monday gardening sessions from 1-3pm starts tomorrow 18th Feb for ten weeks. Beginning with a bit of woodland garden design & planting for wildlife under the young damsons. grantoncastlewalledgarden.wo…
Part of our shoreline's rich and diverse natural history #DarwinDay @KSBScotland @CCHSEdinburgh
Born #otd 210 years ago, Charles Darwin is widely recognised as one of the most influential figures in the history of science. 🔬
This work by Julia Margaret Cameron is part of a book of portraits called ‘Alfred, Lord Tennyson and his friends’ - ow.ly/2QZa30nETwV #DarwinDay
