Recent Posts

The same here. Currently sunshine but I can see clouds approaching. Warmer than yesterday. I unwrapped the tree fern. Wetteronline says rain at 4 in the afternoon.

Was just reading an article about the SNP refusing permission for a flat owner to rent it out as a holiday let on the grounds that a visitor might travel to it, thereby creating carbon emissions, and washing the sheets would add to this, as would a cleaner travelling in a vehicle to service the...

our new apricot and older peach r flowering at same time. bad timing with rain and frost! will try to pollinate them but the peach stamens arent giving me pollen. maybe i can use a sloe or something

That's better.

Coltsfoot, Tussilago, along the little road behind my garden. The flowers look as if they are going over, I didn't see them when open. The leaves appear in the summer time.

I know that this doesn't apply in all countries but......Happy Mothers' Day all!I wish everyone a happy day - whatever you have planned. More gardening for me I hope.

As the Daphne is nearly finished flowering the Admiral moved on the Erysimum.

Go and buy a bag of small potatoes, I tend to make a bag last over a week and by the end they are shooting, and that's in an old fridge in the garage. The fridge is not turned on but it keeps a nice even temperature for storing bought veg.

@Allotment Boy Be interesting to know how the San Marzano do for you. I did try some last year but got nothing worth the effort.