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Thanks Simply stunning photography. That bark spider is ridiculous!

Yes heavy showers of soft hail that dont really amount to much other than being a nuisance if you want to do anything outside. Sunshine in between is still feeling warm and its about 9c when the sun comes out but drops like a stone in the showers to about 5c.Typical spring weather I suppose.

Repotted Dahlia tamaulipana in the greenhouse and took cuttings. Sowed Tagetes and calendula seed sown. Replaced the aged and gnarled Salvia "Amistad" by the front door with a cutting taken last autumn.

Sunny here with cloudy bits and a very strong north westerly coming in off a very cold Atlantic. Not very pleasant. I've been pottering indoors again but will do some sowing this pm i the shelter of the polytunnel.You made me laugh Possum and I have booked a 3 night stay in Carnac at the...

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 !

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...

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...

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.

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

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...