An aquilegia that just turned up at the bottom of the garden. What a little beauty.[ATTACH]
I've got gooseberries! They're actually tiny, this is an extreme close up, but they're my first ever. The bush was a 30p rescue from the...
Early morning shopping trip to Lidl this morning resulted in two Bidens and a sweet little pink gypsophilia [ATTACH]
I have a hogweed growing at the side of my patio that I was going to let survive - they are very popular with the pollinators. But I've just...
I was wondering too, I thought maybe "fugitive" meant that the flowers were hidden in the greenery and you had to go looking for them!
Geum "Mrs Bradshaw"[ATTACH]
I posted earlier on this thread that I had planted a mix bag of Blue themed bulbs, couldn't remember what number 4 was (after muscari, anemone and...
Weird mixture of sunshine and fog here. There so was much vapour curling up from the neighbour's patio furniture I thought for a minute that it...
If it's the front garden, some people have weirdly strong opinions about what should be grown there. I have a neighbour who has raised vegetable...
Scabious, open and unopened.[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Sue Kent was doing exactly that on Gardener's World the other week. Red-flowering broad beans in amongst the flowers.
I have got plenty of seeds (big cheap pack from Premier Seeds Direct) so I have done both; a number outside, and more in pots. Last year I sowed...
I went into B&Q for some lawn edging today, but couldn't find the one I wanted so instead I came home with a Geum Mrs Bradshaw! My first geum...
Just caught this beautiful little bee on the lavender. [ATTACH]
It grows all over my area as a pavement weed and I've been waiting for it to arrive in my garden - no luck, even though I've seen it in next...
I have tried echinacea from bare roots two years running, both times nothing showed at all. This year I planted Liatris bulbs at the same time and...
Looks very like the wild cherry seedlings I get all the time in the garden. I've got one growing right at the base of the rowan tree. Birds must...
My stepmother grew several eucalyptus in the long narrow back garden of a terraced house. There was a big storm and at least one of them came down...
Backlit lavender, this has been flowering for a few weeks now.[ATTACH]
Incoming! I was just trying to get a picture of the rowan blossom, I didn't notice the bee until I looked at it on the computer.[ATTACH]
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