Near my hometown Largs in Ayrshire, I was really pleased to read about Fairlie village's community organic garden, a fantastic 40 large raised beds and counting.
See some images and info here. Darn it, they have even invented a special wormcast (i.e plant food) producing box which I for one will be trying out.
Their website also includes pictures of the filming of the Beechgrove Garden TV show on their lovely seaside site. To readers from south of the border, this will mean nothing, but to any Scottish gardener born in the last 80 years this level of acclaim is up there with appearing on X factor or Strictly. To this iconic show - shot in farflung Aberdeen- I owe the early appearance of my green fingers, it being one of the two TV shows I remember watching only with my mum, the rest of the family must have lost the will to live at what I found to be gripping explanations of gooseberry pruning techniques.
BTW The other show was Come Dancing.

En route for home after the Abbey Gardens laying-out day I was amazed to find myself next to Carol Klein, presenter of BBC Gardener's World, on the London tube. Being quite a fan, I tried to remain casual and respect her privacy for all of 90 seconds before realising this was the opportunity of a lifetime. She was charm personified as I screeched over the train racket about how my garden had been pipped to the post for the NGS Open Garden TV series that she presented (my opener, it's true, it had), my recent project on Exmoor, near her home and nursery (profuse apologies for not having visited, trains and plants being incompatible), and this really exciting garden project in London.....

Posted November 11, 2008 23:29 by Karen Guthrie