The Blair Castle International Horse Trials and Country Fair is the best outdoor show you could ever want for spending one or more days enjoying yourselves, with spectacular and entertaining horse and pony events, fabulous mountain surroundings, and the glistening white backdrop of Blair Castle. Continue reading
Sundials
The Scottish Game Fair 2014
The summer show season is in full swing and our sundial displays are proving very popular. At The Scottish Game Fair held in the grounds of Scone Palace near Perth our stand was outdoors and we were lucky with spells of bright sunshine, which is always a plus for showing sundials Continue reading
The Royal Highland Show 2014
The Royal Highland Show went well for us. After all the preparation beforehand it always seems to be a blur with so many visitors to our stand as each day goes by. This year we tried to create a compact and colourful display showing different sundial designs and new pedestals set among an arrangement of bright blossoms of garden flowers. Continue reading
Sundial shows from spring to autumn
The flowers of spring are at last basking in sunshine, even confounding the forecast of rain for the opening of Caol Ruadh Sculpture Park’s 2014 Connections Exhibition, which runs from Sunday 11 May until 14 September, Continue reading
Scented lotus blossom on Chinese sundial
Scented lotus blossom floating on a lake is the setting for poetry on our Orbit sundial commissioned for a client in China. The characters are in Chinese and until now we had no idea of their meaning. Continue reading
Scottish sundials appeal to Morningside ladies
Photo: Dennis Cowan
Ladies of Morningside listened with lively interest to the stories of Scottish sundials in Alastair Hunter’s talk at their regular meeting on 13 January. The tale of the noble Lady of Lethington Continue reading
A hot phone in cool November
Personal choice at outdoor sundials display
In November the clocks have changed, nights are long, and outdoors it’s not so warm. So taking down our display of sundials for the winter seemed like a good plan. Continue reading
Sundials talk at Newbury
British Sundial Society Open Meeting
The British Sundial Society open meeting held today at Stockcross village near Newbury was welcoming and fun. This popular annual event attracts a full house of members and interested visitors. The individual talks covered an amazing variety of new sundial designs, discoveries and technical achievements. Continue reading
Sculpture Exhibition
nursery open day
Damhead Nursery opens its gates once again to welcome gardeners, designers, landscapers, plant lovers and everyone who likes beauty in a garden. The sculpture exhibition brought together exclusively for the end of August will show off remarakable work by accomplished local artists in metals and other materials.
The sundial display that is proving such a success at Damhead earns a deserving place in the whole exhibition. “We are enjoying the very positive feedback we get from our visitors about your stand!” says Sue Gray, while she plans the arrangements. There is wine tasting on the Friday afternoon, and the gates are open for the weekend. Open Friday to Sunday, 30 August to 1 September.
Sundial Display at Damhead Nursery
STRIKING SUNDIALS SET OFF BY GARDEN PLANTS
Customers and browsers at Damhead Nursery have found a new display of strikingly contemporary Scottish sundials on show among the garden plants today.
Alastair Hunter has brought his sundial show stand to Damhead after its eye-catching successes at the Royal Highland Show and the Scottish Game Fair in June and July this summer. The display will remain in place until the end of August. Continue reading