Just back from my Dublin trip. Happy to find that the first strawberries are turning red, and that the resident blackbirds don't seem to have...
By the time I'd sown the beans the rain had stopped, so I planted out the sweet peas and gave them a wigwam support. Then I found a lot of annual...
The geranium flowers have been deposited on the newly-sown veg beds. It looks quite pretty...
I know that @Fire has had some serious health problems in the past, @Bluejayway @Busy-Lizzie , so I hope they haven't recurred. She's a really...
Raining here too, but I'm off to Dublin tomorrow to the National Botanic Gardens, and to the Bloom flower show on Thursday, so I'll be sowing some...
Hello and thanks for the tip, @lizzie27 . So far so good with the home-made protection, though the bored teenage magpies have gone on to other...
My second row of sugar peas has had the tops nipped off, or the plants pulled out of the ground. I suspect the magpies like the flavour. BUT......
It's interesting stuff, cornflour. If you have access to children who like doing experiments, you can do this with it:...
Good afternoon from a very infrequent poster on this thread.I wonder if it's possible to make a "roof" for your slug pubs, @Topbird...
It's always somewhere visible, @JennyJB . Most recently on the edge of my lip, where of course you can't put insect repellent.Today's moan is...
Having a family history of melanoma, I slap on the factor 50, horrible or not. It seems to make me sweat more, so I have to keep applying it...
I love the way rowans grow on top of rocks, with their roots spreading through cracks. I guess it's the only way they can avoid being munched by...
As an ex-cyclist who was once forced into a ditch by an overtaking car (between Grantchester and Cambridge - good visibility, straight road) I can...
I agree about unpleasant and careless cyclists being in the minority, @JennyJB , and also with the fact that it's nearly impossible to report the...
Steady drizzle so no gardening to speak of, yet, except ordering a new lawn mower, if that counts. OH managed to cut almost all the grass...
However, the sight of dying foliage tends not to lift the mood...
I'd do it now... because it's growing fast, it will be running out of room for its roots, and running out of food and water more quickly, if you...
I think @pete is spot on with Swedish whitebeam. The flowers in the OP's photos are completely white with no hint of pink, and have long stamens....
I love those enormous knobbly yew hedges at Powis. We went there years ago with our NDH group from college.My trip on Wednesday was in Ireland,...
Yes, you should leave the leaves, because they are manufacturing food for your tree so it may flower next spring, if you're lucky. However, the...
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