Himalayan Balsam is the wild flower of this week. What a stunner and sometimes known as the Poor Man's Orchid or Policeman's Helmet. [img]...
Pull or cut the whole head off. The purpose of dead-heading is to stop seed forming. If the plant can't set seed, it tries again and produces...
Believe it or not, I used to go pot holing in Derbyshire with a carbide lamp on my helmet.
This is just salt in the wounds! All that lovely wet stuff and its passing me by. Cool breeze amd lots of dark clouds but no rain. Looked at...
Two white dots on the black spot tell that it is a Gatekeeper. The very similar Meadow Brown has only one white spot there. Gatekeepers are...
Just to give credit where due - my son posted a packet to me from Middlesbrough during his lunch hour on Wednesday. It arrived at 8.30 on...
Weird isn't it ! I mean - we are all bombarded with adverts and told to shop around for gas and electric supply companies, yet not for...
Fine rhyme, Shine :DRain pattern is incredibly localised then. You are just a mile or so from me and all that we have had is a few tiny...
Hi Wildflower - so you can't sleep either!
That's right. The areas are not determined by county boundaries but by water authorities. Essex has two major reservoirs to draw from -...
Well you can try it and see what happens [img] My little black book says "Anthemis nobilis (common chamomile) can be used to form small...
Good for you fmay :D :D :D Your garden will reach a balance and the birds will keep the slugs under control. Slug pellets kill hedgehogs,...
The list is pretty endless, Pete. Main problem is that the underground spring at the lower end of the garden has dried up. Never known that to...
You will get a lovely scent when you walk or sit on it, but I don't think that it will be very hard wearing. It's not as tough as grass.
Happy for you,jjordie :D . Even London has had some, but nothing for me yet. Took 30 wheelbarrow loads of water from the pond this evening...
Why do you want to get rid of them?
I thought that it sounded like Colorado beetle larva but there are very many beetles in Britain and their larva can look very similar. Before...
We need rain now, Pete and badly :( I know that the underground resources will only be filled if it rains non stop all summer. The point is...
It now seems that you cannot fill rainwater butts with a hose. That contradicts advice posted earlier. Scanning the websites of the various...
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