Steps update: I recently found the courage to dig up all the lower part of the bank for future planting (blue-violet-mauve-white border). It was...
The pot making set is amazingly lovely and posh, but you don't need it: see this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHw-DJ0EKbQ
I am not sure where to post this, but I must post it! ´ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hfCPerESng&feature=related
Lollipop, you can make your own "potlings" with newspaper. They are tough enough, and just melt away in the ground when planted, like peat pots. ;)
Compare with my Jonesey.... [img] They just know where the good stuff is!
Duh! Sounds like paradise, to me!;) wish I was travelling around as much as you do, the only chance I get for botanizing is walks to the fields...
Some acacia seeds:...
Please, in my old place I had a field of tomatoes just out of the garden. It was my summer view. Never seen anyone putting plastic sleeves round...
Been out all morning digging the ground of my future "blue border", which I started two days ago. Today I managed a piece about as big as a...
How large across?Once I saw one of those big big round wooden rolls they use for carrying cables when building roads and such sawn and turned...
These furry cows are just so cute! We have a few of them in a pasture near the village, irresistible.Dave I like very much the first picture,...
Daisees, the cat with glasses isjust gorgeous. Does he/she read too?
I repotted two of the babies today, these creatures grow faaaast!!!!
I would suggest a tiny dwarf bamboo, but that's not fragrant. I thing ProGard is right, put a trellis, or some structure of sorts and plant a...
If stony doesn´t like rhubarb it´s ok, for me, leaves more for all of us to eat! :D
Jee, I refuse to believe my plants are so inept that they even need a a special plastic thingy to support the truss. What has the world come to?
Robinoas look very much like acacias, but I think this is the real thing. Robinias have one solitary leaflet on top of the leaf, acacias have not ;)
They don´t eat rhubarb in Italy you cannot find it anywhere. Once I found a forlorn plant in a nursery and THEY asked me what part of it is...
I thought about the passionflower too. Kalmia.It certainly has the general look of one.Not sure which species though.
The tree looks like some kind of acacia... There are various plants in the same family which close their leaves at night... Acacia xanthophloea...
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