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Theres something oddly satisfying about seeing garden plants escaping from the garden and setting up their home in a stone wall (and even better when flowering). Rosemary, Berberis darwinii and Echium pininana in our town.

Sunny intervals and showers some wintery with gusty winds from the west north west temp 7c feels like 3c with the gusty winds.

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

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...

Snug in our rented apartment in Plymouth, overlooking the Tamar. It was a very windy last night, lots of white horses on the water, and a pretty noisy night. Didn’t stop us having a good nights sleep though, the howling and splashing was oddly soothing! Only blip so far is that we had decided...

Wow @floralies 6cm is impressive, I suppose that's why the locust of plague of ancient times were so bad. I quite like bugs which is why I asked if you had a photo. I have 4 different types of stick insects as pets. I used to have a praying mantis and some leaf insects. I use my phone to upload...

Manage to plant another 10 summer flower bulbs yesterday, only got 10 left now to finish from the 50 l bought on sale. l use a long wooden stake to make a hole then drop the small bulbs in, as still cant bend down as the ligement injury is down my left knee/ leg. Its amazing what gardeners will...

@NigelJ Dandelions are a very much maligned plant. Interesting name for the study of them. The leaves can be eaten in salads, the flowers are brilliant for insects and making wine, the root can be used as a substitute for coffee (as in the WW2) and the stems can be great bubble pipes.

White mustard will die at about -5c so it's quite good as a green manure as it'll fairly reliably be killed by winter frosts, saving having to chop and drop later. I've sown it at the same time as the garlic on the same beds and it grows a few inches then is usually dead by xmasAll my...

Yes it worked.

Thanks Simply stunning photography. That bark spider is ridiculous!