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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.

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 !

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...

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...

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

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.

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.

Pear blossom (Pyrus salicifolia)

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...

Yes it worked.

Thanks Simply stunning photography. That bark spider is ridiculous!

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 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...