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Afternoon all, woke at 6.30 ish this morning for a loo trip, went back to bed and overslept till 9 am! Oops, I was very foggy minded and found it difficult to get my brain and limbs in order so OH got the breakfast - probably out of fear I'd drop the teacups. Anyway eventually got washed and...

Not flowered for me yet but surprised by its hardiness, Euphorbia stygiana ssp santa maria. Supposedly treelike eventually.I've had this three years and three times dug up by foxes, not in a great position as it was put there to fill a gap in the fence line, flowering this year, might get some...

I just use this gadget plugged into a USB you just stick the sd card into it wait a minute and the PC opens a folder with all the pictures on the sd card. Then when posting you can just take pics from the card, you don't even have to download them onto the PC if you don't want to.

Bright and dry but a very windy 7 degrees with a frost forecast with snow on the hills, getting like we could do with overnight temperatures lifting now.

Have noticed 2 out of 3 potted agapanthus are showing no signs of life, which is very peculiar. They have been under the porch overhang all winter, so kept dry as they prefer. They are tough plants, not prone to failure. I have had them over 25 yrs though, last divided in 2021, so maybe old...

Here she is @SherwoodArrow !

Yes that was him @CarolineL . He was very knowledgeable but he didn't mention Dendelions.Very interesting @NigelJ ...@On the Levels My mother said she used to make sandwiches of Dendelion leaves when she was little, much to the disgust of my grandmother !

I brought something quite nice for my allotment area.. I has previously been looking for Gardenia 'Crown Jewel', but at the local nursery I stumbled upon a cultivar I had not heard of before; Gardenia 'Double Diamond', so I purchased it without second thought. It is fairly cold hardy but more...

Thanks Simply stunning photography. That bark spider is ridiculous!

I tell you what, @Ergates, we can join forces and start up a secondhand castor cup business on ebay. I currently have in my possession 8 wood-effect plastic ones, 8 white ones, 16 brass ones, and sundry felt attachments (circles, oblongs). I also have 8 spare castor wheels and 8 circular...

G'day, cobbers. What's a hindu?Lays iggs, dunnit, sport.