Ah, I mistook the pictures @Silver surfer posted for new pictures from the OP.
I think Drimys lanceolata as someone suggested earlier. I have a small one and it has that distinctive red colouring near the stem.
Geum "Mrs Bradshaw" - first flower of the year [ATTACH]French Marigold. I gave up with my seed sown ones and bought some plants from the...
How about a Buddleia? You can get some nice compact ones now, and lots of different colours. And they are tough as old boots.
Salvia "cherry lips" [ATTACH]Iris [ATTACH]Leucathoe "Rainbow" [ATTACH]
I have bought some Rugosa roses and a Daubenton's kale plant from Ebay this year. Both came quickly, and were well packaged, good quality plants....
Well, I'm very disappointed. We had a light encounter with a moist towelette, and now there's nothing more forecast for at least a fortnight.
There wouldn't be any old enough to have a red breast at this time of year. It doesn't start coming in until late summer when they are 2 or 3...
I buy loads of bulbs from Farmer Gracy; they have unusual varieties and the bulbs are always big and healthy. I get a few bare roots too. This...
We are all spoilt by modern online shopping. When I was a child we had "mail order", you had to fill in a form and send it by snail mail, and it...
I think it is garden tiger moth; the caterpillars are commonly called "woolly bears".Look out for woolly bears in your garden (or even flying...
I'm happy to report that it did eventually clear up and I'm now sleeping soundly again!
They have several broods a year. The blackbird collecting mud that I reported earlier in this thread was already feeding a fledged youngster.
It's stories like this that made me become a vegan over 30 years ago. People think eggs and dairy are cruelty free, they are absolutely not. For...
I'm not even wasting the bird bath water now. The feral pigeons left it in a dreadful state this morning, so the lily pots got a watering. (Note...
They made sure we saw the important sights though: [IMG]Someone commented that Charlie Dimmock had let herself go!
We have a little bit forecast for Monday through Wednesday, I shall be very disappointed if it doesn't arrive.
That likely explains the difference in timings for me. Last year I grew them in pots on the patio which gets full sun from early Spring. This year...
It's not a youngster; they don't have a red breast. The youngsters are all stripey and mottled. Courtship feeding is well known behaviour amongst...
All my beans are outside now - Purple French beans, Borlotti beans and some bush beans. They all germinated really quickly on a North facing...
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