Great pix! The toad is super and the newts look like crocs.
Hooray :D Lovely rain at last! Good and steady with great fat wet drops. The garden is lapping it up and everything is looking perky already....
Lovely, Dag! Mine are droopy with lack of water. Rain promised for today so fingers crossed
Thanks for the tip, Wildflower. I have sent them some photos.
Moth orchids give great value and each flower lasts for months. Supermarkets sell them, but have no idea how to look after them. I look out for...
These lilies have been grown in the same pot for years and never troubled with lily beetle or vine weevil. A handfull of chicken manure in the...
Hot and dry July following hot and dry June and a hosepipe ban has made life difficult. The hollyhocks are quite happy though [img][img]...
Lovely village! I'll be down your way shortly as I have some photographic work to do on listed buildings for Engliish Heritage. May your bee...
I dunno about that, Wildflower - I look just like me. Why is that red cross guy wearing a bucket on his head?
I agree - they are ethereal. Well done for getting that shot so well
Does anybody else get the mid-summer gardening blues? Every year, just about now the garden loses its appeal. Asters and dahlias still to come of...
Without wasps, there would be a lot more cabbage white caterpillars munching your brassicas. I once saw a wasp swoop on a cabbage white in mid...
Where are you Shiney? I'm in Bishops Stortford
The product you are referring too comes as granules or a gel. Called Slug Stoppa, it creates a barrier which they cannot cross because it dries...
Yes - it is the real thing. Good luck with the seeds
Orchid hunting is fun and in yesterday's heat, I was sloshing around in the fens of the Waveney valley in Suffolk. I was searching for the Marsh...
Smaller than the others, but ever so much more exotic, I came across these Dark Mulleins deep in Thetford Forest.Dark Mullein (Verbascum nigrum)...
The Comma butterfly is one of my favourites. It hibernates in winter and is often one of the first to visit my garden in the spring. Stinging...
Welcome Shiney and Mrs Shiney [img] Thanks for pointing this post out to me Poppy :DBee orchids in your lawn? Lucky, lucky you and I am...
Baked roses anyone? This is what the fierce sun is doing to my roses :( [img]The petals are not falling and the flowers are just being...
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