I've been reading this thread with great interest and am amazed by how many varieties are growing. As for me I've only grown 3 varieties: Ailsa...
Anaphalis [ATTACH]Acanthus - I like their stately flowers so I had planted 2 plants in different parts of the gardens, only to discover they...
Silver Y feeding [ATTACH]Baby Garden Spider [ATTACH]Common darters, one hovering and the other resting. [ATTACH][ATTACH]
I bought some Pepper Antohi Romanian from the vegetable market early in the year, liked their sweet taste very much. Though I wasn't sure if the...
I use a small diamond sharpening pen on mine. Lay it on the beveled edge of the secateurs then lift it by 5 degrees or so and simply draw it...
Oak is one of the traditional British carving woods because of its strength and its attractive grain pattern. However you do have to be careful...
Based on the colour of feathers we sometimes find on the lawn, "our" sparrowhawk seems to have a taste for collar doves of which we have quite a...
Lovely picture. We get a sparrow hawk visiting our garden occasionally but it's never that obliging! It either flashes past on a reconnaissance...
Lophospermum has started very late this year, only just beginning to flower. Luckily once it starts it will keep going till frost. [ATTACH]I...
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We went out for a bit of blackberry picking and were slightly surprised to see nearly half of the blackberries were still green, about 35-40% were...
Hello @Sian in Belgium, do you have swallowtail butterflies where you are? The caterpillar in your photos looks like a swallowtail lava to me. If...
MrH has a small collection of carving chisels and carving knives. [ATTACH]"Hardwood" is an unfortunate term used for wood mainly from...
MrH has been making use of some branches from a plum tree for a bit of stick making.Wood Spirit [ATTACH]Owl [ATTACH]More of a cudgel than...
It will turn into large cabbage white. Nasturtium is one of their favourite food.
I'd pretty much agree with @clueless1. Three years ago we acquired a plot via Landshare for growing veggies. It hadn't been touched for at least...
Only realised how pretty the mint moth is when I took this close up photo of it [ATTACH]We went out for a walk near our house, and come across...
Gosh! What a lot of tomatoes you've got! FC :blue thumb:I don't have a big freezer so I don't freeze tomatoes but bottle them.Do what Zigs...
I tried C. clematidea once, it flowered the first year after sowing but it didn't come back to life after winter. Not sure why. It was in a pot so...
It looks as though it is eucalyptus wood and they recommend using oil on it. http://reviews.homebase.co.uk/1494-en_gb/632369/reviews.htm...
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