I love most plants, @Sheal , but Valerian is an exception. Memories of my wedding dress being soaked on the way to the church, by valerian...
This is what I am trying to do with the "grass" at the top third of the garden. It is cut just once in the growing season, around July, but as you...
Thank you for taking the time for this answer, @ARMANDII . Your experience in this sort of situation is invaluable! I will do my best to...
Thank you all for your replies. Yes, I know that quick-draining soil might be appealing when you have claggy clay. I grew up with Hereford red...
firstly, thank you @Clare G !Right, I've pulled myself together, and got out there to cut the grass and the meadow "paths". One good thing about...
i was so tempted when looking at all the online suppliers, as recommended, and then remembered how many plants fail here.:sad:I dug out my...
@shiney, I think that birds are able to recognise individual people, and are more intelligent than we give them credit for. Your blackbirds have...
There’s a little plant that is rising to this challenge - some pitchers are almost overflowing!!
Yikes! I hope that the house wasn’t affected!
Managed to get the church gardens looking a little tidier. The geraniums hadn’t been pruned, and the huge patio rose bushes needed serious...
@CanadianLori, I got my mum (well, her carer, actually!) a brolly, or whirligig style clothes line. She is so pleased she can hang the clothes out...
Horseflies certainly do bite, draw blood, and leave you with a nasty itchy sore lump if you are lucky (and a swollen area/temperature/infected...
So far today I’ve just done a poop-scoop, and pegged out the washing... [ATTACH]A full washing line blowing in the breeze always makes me...
This looks wonderful! About the only way I could survive a day in London now!!
Not a Sarracenia question per say, but a drosera one....My Sarracenia started “harvesting” flies within 24 hours. The Drosera has still not...
Unfortunately, I don’t have any sphagnum peat, just live sphagnum moss, so they will have to make do...
Can you tell that the first gardening book I ever bought was “The Pip Book”?!
Hmmm, how addictive is this carnivorous plant malarkey?!!
We sat by the pond and fed the fish, whilst we had our morning coffee.Hubby went up the ladder to get half a trug full of moss out of our french...
Following on from my pitcher plant purchase last week. Today we are in Lidl and they had 30% off the carnivorous plants.... So I now have a sundew...
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