10 minutes walk from our house, among hedgerows we saw a family of whitethroat, this youngster is just so cute [ATTACH][ATTACH]While my...
Well, we are having a pretty good growing season so far and at the moment we have temporarily turned ourselves into vegetarians just to keep up...
Looks like Virginia Creeper to me. One of our neighbours has got one which climbs over our garage if left to its own devices. They chop it back...
Went out for some blackberry picking and saw quite a few wasps. They were such efficient eating machines that it didn't take long for them to...
Some years ago we decided to follow the advice on R4's Gardeners' Question Time to leave clover in the lawn as it added nitrogen to the soil so...
It looks like cotoneaster horizontalis, in which case it can be trained to cover the wall or fence or allowed to form a mound. Bees love the...
Garden's matured nicely, full of colour and interest. Giraffe and other inhabitants all looking quite at home amongst the vegetation!:dbgrtmb:...
To be even more pedantic, is it not "Cotoneaster"?I also agree with Marley on the identification and treatment of bindweed.
My leeks and garlic tend to suffer from rust badly. Never worked out what I could do about it apart from taking off badly effected leaves without...
Some of the bugs around the garden Narcissus bulb fly - it is very pretty, looks like a large hairy hoverfly, but ... [ATTACH]A tiny little...
We know how to cool down in this heat :snork: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Ratibida - Mexican hat [ATTACH]Eryngium alpinum [ATTACH]Canna brasiliensis [ATTACH]Verbascum chaixii [ATTACH]Oenothera versicolor...
I wonder whether Allium Vincale and Allium Vineale are the same thing? Suttons seeds are one the few sites which seem to use the former name so it...
The second photo looks like Allium Vincale, "Hair Allium".
The only good thing about it is that despite being up to seven foot tall with stems about 4ins diameter it is very shallow rooted and wonderfully...
Thank you Jenny and Spruce.I think I might have put a bit too much in. :heehee: The stepping stones / paths are disappearing and we also have...
Calandrinia [ATTACH]Alstroemeria psillacina [ATTACH]Cuphea ignea [ATTACH]Campanula punctata [ATTACH]Ipomoea lobata [ATTACH]Basella...
Views of the main flower border from our bedroom window [ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH]A couple of sunflowers [ATTACH][ATTACH]A rose I've grown...
Looks like a lilac to me. Notorious for producing suckers. Break them off below ground level if possible but in twelve years we never managed to...
@wiseowl Very nice, and I think your caterpillar will turn into a cinnabar moth
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