Well we all garden for different reasons and mine is very much in the real world. My garden is a mini wildlife reserve so I value the wildflowers,...
Live and let live and grow what they don't like to eat. Thrushes eat snails and hedgehogs eat slugs. Poison the offenders and you poison those...
Kant taste - dose bungedCOLD
In reply to the husband that ditches every plant that a wasp visits: First thing to do is learn to tell the difference between a wasp and a...
The fruit will be black when ripe - hence the old name of Black Lovage
Alexanders is also known as Black Lovage and doesn't grow as tall as angelica.
Be thorough, Stingo! I tried to eradicate them from a garden and found them worse than ground elder.
Pete - your plant is more likely to be Alexanders (Smyrnium olusatrum) This is mainly confined to coastal regions, though with warmer winters it...
Alas - the bluebells in my local woodland are in decline. Sheets of the lovely wood anemones stretch out in white and pink, but like all members...
Hmm! Well my defintion of a wildflower is something like: a plant that has not been sown, planted or cultivated. Native plants are harder to...
Dandelions are possibly the most maligned and unappreciated wild flower in Britain. Gorgeous golden sheets of them cover the motorway verges at...
They grow unprotected in the Isles of Scilly and ramble all over the place extending themselves. I've tried at home, but never manage to keep them.
In decline, but still to be found on a chalk hillside in Hertfordshire are the wonderful pasque flowers - Pulsatilla vulgaris. Far fewer today...
What a fantastic wild flower extravaganza this year! I guess the dry winter and cold spring held things back and now everything is coming at...
Thanks, Fran. It's alive with bees too - even in town. The back garden is quite different as it is an old orchard with a natural spring. Pix soon.
Hornbeam by Hornbeam - a self portrait.I bet you thought that Ents were a figment of Tolkien's imagination!Seriously though - have you seen...
Early Purple Orchids are blooming well today in my local woodland. Does anyone know where I can see Bee Orchids in the Herts/Essex/Cambs area?...
Gardeners' Corner is simply great! Congrats to everyone concerned with it. I'm still finding my way around, but perhaps this is the right place...
I love these little violets. They grow in every shady chink, nook and cranny. They are always neat, but seed themselves freely between paving...
Ah - I see. Never heard it called liverwort before, but it makes sense. Hepatitis is inflamation of the liver and so Hepatica nobilis is the...
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