Our first comma butterfly yesterday afternoon.
The huge flocks of starlings you see over the winter are native ones but mostly those that have come from mainland Europe. These ones have now...
We have magnolias growing in heavy clay soil and they have and are doing really well. Why are you wanting to add ericaceous compost?
@luciusmaximus Did you grow morning glory last year? Some of the seed leaves look like MG ones.
Well we went today to a reunion. Neither of us were sure that we wanted to go, but we did. It was from some staff/members/post grad students etc...
Again the pigeons are having a feast. They are on one of the plum trees which has flower buds on and are happily (for them and not us) pecking...
Weeded an area that we call the dry area...but nothing is dry in our garden. Tackled a very old black currant bush. So many dead branches but...
This time of the year the pollinators love the primroses and pulmonaria. Anemone blandas open fully in the sun and the bees and butterflies get...
Our Azara serrata is every green but not showing any signs of flowers at the moment. Doesn't help though. But agree with @Silver surfer that...
@Bluejayway Interesting about you dead heading. Our narcissi have been the best ever this year. However the tete a tete in another area have had...
Catching up again by sowing pea beans in pots and left in the tunnel but then found that last year we didn't sow until April/May.....so we are...
@Garden Novice this does happen if they are in little light as they "etiolate" (become strung up) but also can be (as always) too much/too little...
A productive day. We watered the orchids (takes about 2 hours!). Planted out the sweet pea seedlings with supports for them to cling onto. Then...
We did Wordle twice in 2 and then missed out on the next two totally!
Weather permitting we hope to plant out our sweet pea seedlings that were sown indoors and now have been hardened off. These are from seeds...
Yes I was right after watering 2 hours later the rains did come but then the watering will have helped the rain to move into the soil.
@strongylodon we do love the pintails. Fabulous birds.
Transplanted out the dwarf broad bean seedlings at long last. Have sown some more indoors but no germination so far. Have had to do a lot of...
Had to cut back the first part of the privet hedge and that means cutting it down by at least a foot. We had somebody last year who was supposed...
2 male brimstones over the garden for some time. 2 buzzards being mobbed first by the crows and then the gulls came in.
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