Hi, since it's very flat and not very big, have you thought about getting a manual mower? I have one I use for the front lawn (which is sloped and...
I picked a big bunch of spinach beet for my evening meal. It keeps producing flower heads but I promptly pick and eat them, and it's still putting...
Could do without this at quarter to eight on a Sunday morning! [ATTACH] [ATTACH]The gulls don't normally visit my garden - it's not an ideal...
I haven't tried it myself - it's one of the few weeds I don't have! But it was introduced to Britain by the Romans as a pot herb. From what I...
How pretty. Yellow loosestrife and purple toadflax? Have you tried eating your ground elder?
Your picture just shows a few nice looking mature shrubs. If it was left to be "generally overgrown" I'd expect to see brambles etc coming over...
Ooh, I want a Lavatera for my front garden so will have to check next time I'm there.
How about a Lavatera?"The large bushy plants bear masses of huge white, trumpet-shaped flowers, which are extremely attractive to bees."...
Astrantia "Shaggy" [ATTACH] [ATTACH]Mallow in the front garden, which pops up in any paving joints. Seems perfectly happy with next to no soil...
"Wet" was commonly used in my youth; you made me wonder about the use of the term "Tory Wet" and searching for that found:Wets and dries -...
This guy is taking legal action after his neighbour deliberately cut down his plants (well within his boundary) and used weedkiller on his garden....
What a lovely family, they all look well fed and very relaxed in that garden.
Borage and Green Alkanet for comparison. The Alkanet flowers are much smaller and simpler, rather like forget-me-not flowers, and it flowers much...
When I first encountered green alkanet I assumed it was borage - at that time I hadn't yet seen any real borage. However the flowers are edible...
Lots of gentle rain overnight, dry this morning but has rained steadily all afternoon. Finally enough to moisten the ground under my trees, and my...
Baby blue tit this morning. I had quite an influx of tits all at once - great, blue, coal and long-tailed. [ATTACH]
Now that's just cruel - with that quantity of bamboo it would promptly starve to death.
In that case your best option is just to cut it off as near to the ground as you can manage.
It's arrived just in time for the Pimms! I have some of the blue in my garden, buds not open yet.
That looks like Borage, but a white one which is unusual.
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