If you want them to bloom all summer, prepare this homemade fertilizer. Everything you need is already at home.

But still a lot of commentators, in the mainstream and online, keep getting some basic things about Orkney wrong. Let us start with the name. It is Orkney singular. There is no such place as "the ...

But of late, the humble geranium is having something of a fashion moment. When the designer Cath Kidston launched her bodycare brand C. Atherley last year, for example, she based it entirely on ...

Several hardy hybrid geraniums are sterile ... a deliberate cross made by Orkney plant breeder Alan Bremner between G. endressii and G. psilostemon. This one is not for the faint hearted: it ...

5 things to do in the garden this week: 1. You can test the drainage of any soil by digging a hole 1 foot deep and filling it with water. If the soil drains within four hours, you have decent ...

Five thousand years ago the ancient inhabitants of Orkney—a fertile, green archipelago off the northern tip of modern-day Scotland—erected a complex of monumental buildings unlike anything ...

The fact is, you do not have to give them up. You can overwinter them. You need to bring the geraniums in before the first frost. Choose vigorous, healthy, insect-free, disease-free plants for any ...

BBC Radio Orkney brings you 'Around Orkney' every weekday from 07:30-08:00. The programme features local news and weather, diary, the jobspot, mart report and postbag. Listen to the most recent show.

A total of 41 people were injured when the MV Alfred grounded on Swona in July 2022. Orkney Islands Council has now issued a a warning to stags and hens leaving public toilets in a mess.

The wreckage of an old wooden ship which was discovered on an Orkney beach is beginning to break up. Attempts to rescue the separated pieces began on Sanday on Monday afternoon. It is thought a ...