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After 5 years as a digital issue, the very first print issue of Scotland Grows magazine in here.

Alongside our regular columnists with whom you will be very familiar, we welcome some new faces to our pages for this issue as Lewis Normand, President of The Caley, brings us up to speed on the society’s upcoming activities; Dougal Philip and Lesley Watson show us what goes on in their garden and their new found pleasure in tablescaping; Ann Lindsay starts a new series on our great Scottish plant hunters with fascinating insight into how far some of our most loved plants have come; we welcome Julianne Robertson onboard as a feature writer and houseplant advisor,  and we welcome back Cairi Balmain who wrote for us back in the early days, and who now brings back her column on growing food in Shetland.

We’ve got garden design tips from Katie Reynolds and Joanne Evans; practical garden solutions from Katrina Gelderbloem, Andy Peasgood, and Katryn Stewart-Russell; mouth-watering wild garlic recipes from Janice Clyne, and a new series from Kelly Ireland for this year on growing in a polytunnel, which was a request from readers after our reader survey in October last year.

In between all that, we’ve got news of a new Hellebore Festival for Scotland, spring blooms to enjoy, inspiration for incorporating Pantone’s colour of the year into your garden, ideas to ensure good crop rotation, and a journey back to basics as we look at soil health, and a masterclass in seed sowing from Scott Smith.

It’s a bumper issue which delivers a great big dose of gardening goodness for you just as spring, with all its wonders, unfolds before our eyes.