Pruning shrubs, may be removing one of them.
40 plus mm of rain yesterday, damp this morning drier this afternoon; mild for the time of year 16°C all day, breeze from the South.
I would repot in a third to half grit. In dry conditions it's easy to add water whereas if too wet it's not easy to remove water.
Saturnalia was 17th to 23rd December, that'll do me, rather than this johnny come lately Christian stuff.
Can't stand the blessed things, noisy and dirty. Would be improved by a vow of silence or staying out at sea. Did see a Peregrine take a young...
Never had a Christmas Tree since I had my own place, no tinsel, no baubles. Christmas cards tolerated if people might visit at Christmas. I'd...
Why do you think we employ people like James Bond.
It would be a rare garden that doesn't, to some extent you have to live with it. If you can't then try war surplus Agent Orange.
Apparently today is World Jellyfish Day.
Got the bamboo thinned out, first time I've had a good go for a couple of years and found that quite a lot of the older canes had expired and just...
As I said above they hold the title and style Princess in their own right. This sums it up better: As a male-line grandchild of the sovereign,...
I prefer Tanj (There ain't no justice).
I believe that Andrew's daughters have the title of Princess in their own right. It's a tad difficult to inherit something from a parent until...
@LunarSea That is a good question and I don't really know. In theory the clone should be as far down the road to flowering as the parent, but it...
@Obelix-Vendée I soak them, then plant them up in the greenhouse until they are a reasonable size then into the garden and hopefully tough enough...
@On the Levels My Phyllostachys nigra must be a similar age to yours.
Arum italicum, freshly opened [ATTACH]Cotoneaster salcifolius Rothschildianus fruit [ATTACH]Camellia sasanqua Hugh Evans [ATTACH]Camellia...
Well none of that happened, planted some more chitted broad beans in the greenhouse, watered a few things. Then planted a Mahonia I've been trying...
No the NHS doesn't take recycling that far unfortunately.
I was growing up in the drill and fill era of dentistry so ended up with a mouthful of zinc amalgam fillings, most of which lasted into my 40s...
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