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@Love my chicken my ladybird looks like a harlequin. It has two white patches at the front. We have so many in the house at times and they are all sorts of colours and spots.

I wonder can that be classed as our native two spot ladybird? X

Thank you @JennyJB Dewi's is on a wooden stick and he enjoys chewing it, it's full of teeth marks along the whole of its length. He's got two actually - one upstairs and one down

My flowerbeds would all become compost heaps as we have so much. We also get leaves from the golf course, but I do return those. I have a pampas grass that is bashed to bits and needs a good chop. I would love to set fire to it as Shiney once suggested , but the fence and neighbour's hedge...

My latest chilli report. Mixed my usual chilli seed compost in a bucket. Poured it into my usual seed pods. Planted my 9 Karala chilli seeds and 12 seeds from the free packet in my gardening magazine and placed on my heat mats. 1 Karala seed has sprouted whilst a 100% germination from the free...

A year or two back there were diversion signs at a crossroads near our village on the border of two counties. As the county highways depts don't talk to each other they hadn't coordinated their roadwork schedules so there were four diversion signs at the crossroads point in the four different...

@Adam I , Jurassic plants is an addictive shop- a superb selection of interesting plants and reasonable pricing. Good customer service too. Thankfully most of their stuff is too tender for my liking but I do succumb every now and then

I’ve had steroid injections in a tennis elbow years ago, which completely cured it. Also had a steroid injection in my right hip, and have not had any problems since. Those of you who have had steroid injections in thumbs, what was wrong with your thumbs? I have been suffering from tendonitis in...

When I came home yesterday evening it 0c and raining but the rain has now stopped and we are at 4C. No rain forecast today, tree surgeons due here today , but forecast to rain every day for the next fortnight.

Germination is not as good as previous years, second sowing gone in.

I've simplified this year. Foremost, Charlotte and Sarpo Mira. Set to chit.

New addition to the sowings; an F1 cross of Bloody Butcher and Latah. Expecting regular leaves and smallish red fruit but the rest is yet to be seen.