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What a delightful view @Ergates! My sister and I had a rescue donkey each when we were children.I hope you are behaving yourselfI've been weeding and mulching the shrub bed. The mulch is from wood chippings from when I had a tree cut down and the overgrown hedge cut when I bought this house...

I've just had an email from Peter Beales about their new rose. I saw it when I did a course with them in February, but it didn't have any leaves then. Introducing our new rose

We had this topic in the GE forum and I said without Mullein plant no mullein caterpillar even if they eat other plants too. I have no problem if they eat on it. I was more upset this morning that one of the catmint didn’t survive longer than 12 hours. I covered it again. It looks like Nepeta...

A lovely walk along the path between Llandudno West Shore and Deganwy - North Wales. The hill on the left is the Great Orme, houses on the left are on what is known as Millionaires Row. One was once owned by Cliff Richards. Another resident was Judith Chalmers. We have just returned, we were...

You could have cut them up if you had wanted. That would have given a larger(R) crop. Will be interested to see if you get an enlarged output, never having done such an extravagant thing !! Perhaps they will all be 'bakers' ??, my Charlottes are used as second earlies , as salad (new ) potatoes.

Yesterday we took ourselves to a relatively local nursery, came home with a rhodanthemum Zagora Yellow, which I'd wanted but not expected to find, a yellow-flowered daphne for a pot on the patio, and a good-sized hydrangea aspera Hot Chocolate, to replace a paniculata that didn't make it through...

The forecast is dry for today (cool though) so I might get the forsythia pruned now that the flowers have gone. OH is out so I can get at the shredder which is kept in the back of the garage. The rain that was forecast for the middle of the day yesterday never materialised so I could have done...

Good luck @pete, I hope all goes well. They are lovely dogs.

I am way way behind with my veg growing as have been extremely busy doing other garden related things. I normally lime brassica beds in the winter but failed miserably. Only just thought about it yesterday! I am planning on planting out my Calebrasse , Broccoli to you and me, seedlings and no...

Tumbling Tom Yellow sown February 18th:

My technophobe husband really annoyed me for some reason that I can't remember now. He needed his password to log on to his computer changed. I changed it to IMASHITE. It was a long time before I took pity on him and changed it to something else.

Just found this thread, taken me over a month!Last night we had breadcrumbed lemon chicken breasts, mushrooms and green asparagus. So far there had only been white asparagus in Leclerc, our local French SM. We tried some, expensive, bitter and tough - despite peeling the stems. Yesterday they...

I'm too stingy to buy these new fangled things with moulded plugs so have a stock of plugs. Someone also mentioned to me that they also buy new clothes!