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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...

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

Hope you find your airfryer as useful as I find mine, I resisted buying one for a few years, despite OH being very keen, but I finally succumbed, and now rarely use the oven for the two of us. I’ve found it incredibly flexible, and very quick, especially not having to preheat it. OH didn’t hold...

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...

Here she is @SherwoodArrow !

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...

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.

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 !

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...

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.

Thanks Simply stunning photography. That bark spider is ridiculous!