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Pear blossom (Pyrus salicifolia)

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...

I've not done much in the garden today, too cold and too windy, just hastily chopped back a rose which was trying to grow all over one bird feeder, then deadheading some daffodils whilst I was out. That was quite enough!

Started my first batch two weeks agoSunchocola Rose de Berne Grushovka Starfighter Rebel Prime Bolivian Orange Cherry Stupice Red Alert Blondkopfchen Honeymoon Piel del Melocoton Cosmonaut Volkov Nello's PlumAll rose their heads quickly apart from the Honeymoon and one of the Grushovkas...

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...

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

Give me a few days ( weeks/months ?) to digest that and I'll try again. It is frustrating and I sometimes wish I was back in the '70's when I had "proper" cameras, my own dark room and developed and printed my own pics. I knew what I was doing then

Thanks Simply stunning photography. That bark spider is ridiculous!

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 !

Here she is @SherwoodArrow !

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.

Afternoon all, woke at 6.30 ish this morning for a loo trip, went back to bed and overslept till 9 am! Oops, I was very foggy minded and found it difficult to get my brain and limbs in order so OH got the breakfast - probably out of fear I'd drop the teacups. Anyway eventually got washed and...

I brought something quite nice for my allotment area.. I has previously been looking for Gardenia 'Crown Jewel', but at the local nursery I stumbled upon a cultivar I had not heard of before; Gardenia 'Double Diamond', so I purchased it without second thought. It is fairly cold hardy but more...