This morning before the rain we did some cutting back of seeded plants that the birds had no finished with, dug up ivy that had self rooted in a...
@NigelJ good point and one that I should have known.
But then thinking a bit more when it rains carnivorous plants do have rain water go into their pitchers but with our plants we have never done...
Agree about Nepenthes, they are not hardy enough to be outdoors especially this time of the year. Have never heard about watering the "cups". We...
WE also had no success with carrots when sown outdoors. So some years ago we experimented by sowing directly in the ground in the polytunnel....
A mistle thrush flew into the orchard with a small flock of starlings. Not seen that before. It then moved away from them and came very close so...
You see wonderful clumps of daffodils in flower alongside roads in many areas. They are never lifted and divided nor are they fed. So how do these...
@NigelJ we are the same with the blandas. Only planted blue but we are getting more whites coming through. Like them both. The narcissi are...
A hornet flew over the garden room. Seems very early.
Saw a butterfly today but so quick and away. Could it have been a small tortoisehell?
@strongylodon Fabulous photos.
We have many bees on the wing now but haven't seen any butterflies yet...then will do tomorrow!
Sorted the stored apples (loads this time needed to be out for the birds). Then we tackled the bay tree with all its suckers.
Which Daphne is it?
Sowed some sweet peas and hollyhocks in pots and then back in the garden room. Harvested some more leeks, some better than others but still ours.
Yes but you need to make a wigwam with them and then twine some string between them so that the glories can cling onto them as they climb.
We were given some seeds about 6 years from a neighbour. She told us that she doesn't sow seeds until May. We started them off earlier in April...
@NigelJ Thank you for reminding me to do our sweet peas. Had saved seeds from last year and had forgotten about them. So will do some this week....
@john558 Do you use compostable bags for your kitchen waste? they are so not compostable and remain in our compost heaps for years. So we do have...
At long last I did some veg sowing. Tomato, dwarf broad beans (I know very late and should have done this in the Autumn), chillies, sweet peppers...
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