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Gave my buddleia a good prune

It makes me laugh when products are made healthier by reducing the amount you get. Walkers crisps, now 20% less fat, well yes because there's less in the bag.

Had a good sleep last night with no feline disturbances till 7am and then dozed off agian till 10:30. Spent my morning doing the usual admin stuff after a sewing meeting.This pm I've been fixing up a new hen bathing bed behind the hen shed. It's just a plastic sheet covered arch which will...

At 2.30 it brightened up and now matches the forecast I saw this morning. sunshine but the wind has got up. 13c.

Not here @simone_in_wiltshire, it behaves well in my dry, sandy soil and I like the fact that it is evergreen, grows in shade and flowers prolifically in spring. I have others elsewhere which help to bind the soil on my bank and keep weeds at bay. A very useful plant for the right soil and place.

It makes perfect sense. Bella is still there, and he feels it. Animals do this. They have sense we lost in our evolution. Only a few still have it and they make it to a business.We got our second cat in 2008 two weeks after my cat had died. She slept on the same place on the sofa where two...

That sounds good @On the Levels. Hope the new hog settles in. We have 5 here as far as we know - 2 adults plus the 3 they produced last year. The back garden is walled all round with the only access ( in or out ) being the small gap under the wooden side gate. The small front garden is also...

I dont think that packet of seed is designed for "proper" gardeners. I'd not hold out much hope for the outcome.

I've grown lemon drop for a few years now. They are very prolific once they get going and I save some seed each year. I tend to use them whole, after rpicking witha darning needle, in bottles of olive oil for cooking or salad dressings and I remove the pith and seeds of others before chopping...