I did some water colour painting for a while before I've started to spend most of my time on gardening. To be honest I don't think I'm really that...
What wood is it? Looks like cedar or teak?MrH made some oak garden furniture some years ago and has been oiling it using Garden Furniture oil...
It might be a rose sawfly. Are there roses nearby?
Gladioli are looking good at the moment [ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH]Cononopsis is starting to flower [ATTACH][ATTACH]
Baby blackbird calling for mum [ATTACH]A hover fly [ATTACH]Holly blue dancing about and didn't land anywhere long enough for a decent photo...
Aubergines Sichuan styleThis year I've got quite a few aubergines from our plants. Had moussaka 2 days ago, so today I cooked them in Sichuan...
Some of the squashes, honey bear (green one) and Potimarron, look quite mature. So I harvested them in the hope the plants will gather enough...
Completely agree. We had to remove a shed earlier this year as it was rotting at the base and in danger of collapsing into the greenhouse which...
?? Did you remove it ... or did the fault causing yesterday's system breakdown somehow remove it??Like Kristen, I prefer to filter the 'new...
I don't think so but they do "farm" them for the honeydew which they excrete. I've seen ants attacking ladybirds in order to protect their aphids...
A few bits and pieces around the garden Lobelia speciosa [ATTACH] Actaea rubra [ATTACH] Physostegia virginiana (not at all obedient, spread...
Fortunately we're not else MrH would have spent the family fortune on tools by now (it's a very small family fortune).:cool:On the positive...
I quite like her red eyeliner :rolleyespink: MrH saw one land among the flowers but he couldn't find it while I was fetching the camera, so we...
Do you see me?? [ATTACH] Gatekeeper and brimstone resting together [ATTACH] and brimstone loves crocosmia it would seem [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
One of my favourite small birds. There was a family of these longtail tits visiting our garden and I spent a happy half hour photoing them....
It might be a yellow ichneumon wasp. http://lifeonanoxfordlawn.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/ichneumon-wasp-amblyteles-armatorius.htmlA non stinging...
To quote Wikipedia :"Hardwood contrasts with softwood (which is from Gymnosperm trees). Hardwoods are not necessarily harder than softwoods. In...
Completely agree.MrH took up wood carving a few years ago and we've been to Yandles a few times. They have Spring and Autumn shows where you...
Do badgers have antlers in your neck of the woods?:scratch:
We've got 4 plants and have had about 12kg so far!! If we leave them on the plant because they're a bit too small to harvest, they're like mini...
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