The lucky, first recipient of the BPOA- Peter Seabrook Bursary is Jamie Satterthwaite, a 20 year old, second year BSc Horticulture student from Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire, 7½ miles west of Paisley. Jamie studies in Edinburgh at the SRUC (formerly SAC), Scotland’s Rural College and lives in Broughton Road, close to the Edinburgh Botanic

How to garden with a hosepipe ban When the sun shines and spring is in the air, many of us are tempted into the garden once more. Yet in 2012, the April showers were accompanied by drought orders and hosepipe bans for many. So can we garden without a hosepipe? We have put together the