Thank you very much everybody! :biggrin:
Looking around the fronts of my own borders here for small non-sprawlers:Geranium Orkney Cherry - dwarf form, bronze leaves and pink flowers...
My sunny border - many of the plants are flopping a bit rather after some very heavy rain here this week, especially the verbena bonariensis!...
Caught in a trap (Elvis Presley, Suspicious Minds)[ATTACH]
Red Admiral in the garden at lunchtime - like @Logan's, my clump of verbena bonariensis was the draw. That is popular with other butterflies too -...
Will you walk into my parlour? (Mary Howitt, The Spider and The Fly) [ATTACH]
Common toadflax I think - often found on waste ground.
On the sack - any kind of clean sack/ big square of loosely-woven water-absorbing natural textile (burlap, hessian, jute) would be okay. You need...
There is a good RHS guide to the procedure here - as a deciduous tree it is more likely to survive if you can wait a month or so, until it is...
Another view of the little area of the park down the road that we surveyed for wildflowers back in early June. This one was taken in mid-August,...
Your query made me think of a recent Guardian gardening article about someone creating a 'rubble garden' in Bristol. Really beautiful, and there...
Interesting, @noisette47 - it did say on the link I gave that the seed-scattering legend was a relatively recent one, and when I checked I found...
I don't have enough space here for eryngiums, but if I did I would find a spot for 'Miss Willmott's Ghost', eryngium giganteum.[ATTACH]I love...
Arum Italicum [ATTACH]
Black, green and everything in between[ATTACH]
Orange On Green[ATTACH]
It'll be foxes, in my experience - I live very near a railway embankment which is a local 'fox superhighway' and both my neighbour and I have come...
I spotted this Comma butterfly in the park this morning - fortunately I had my camera with me and it was obliging about holding its pose. Love its...
When the time comes for a new tree, one that has a columnar habit (i.e. is going to stay narrow as it grows) might be a good option. Two that have...
I've spotted this thread rather late in the day, but hopefully not too late to mention a couple of really fascinating wildflower 'experiences'...
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