Thank you for showing us around your beautiful garden, and I like your way with plants and colour combination. It certainly give me some food for...
Saw three orange tip butterflies (or the same one on 3 separate occasions) yesterday in the warm sunshine. :) Unfortunately they didn't settle for...
After the early slow start, the last couple of weeks of warm weather have helped the garden along nicely.Tulips have finally have opened their...
I use the "Snipping Tool" on Windows 7. This enables you to select any area of the screen and to save it as a jpg file.Alternatively a quick...
Hadn't been to our Landshare allotment for a week, we were shocked to see the weeds had grown by over a foot, now nearly 2 feet tall :gaah: . I...
Thanks ShealSome of Westonbirt's history from their website http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/INFD-6XDCU8:....1840 Robert Holford acquires...
The first time we tried to visit in autumn it was a weekend and the traffic was queuing for a couple of miles before the entrance to the arboretum...
While the rhododendrons, camelias and magnolias attract attention by the sheer size of their flowers, there's plenty of other things to see if you...
Ok, strictly speaking not a "Garden" (unless you're an Ent of course) but a couple of days ago we paid a visit to Westonbirt Arboretum. Lovely...
Another sunny and warm day which lifted my mood no end. :SUNsmile:Spent some time tidying, feeding and watering strawberry plants. [ATTACH]...
Today the weather here is bitterly cold with a biting wind. Being a softy, I stayed indoors mostly. Since we are thinking of re-designing our...
He is also a very helpful guy. I emailed him for some further help regarding sowing, since the seeds of the fuchsia paniculata are really tiny and...
I've got 4 spare Fuchsia paniculata plants which I grew from seeds last year and they are now over a foot tall. :)Plants info and care:...
I'm just wondering whether we are really behind or were we too far ahead in the previous few years? :scratch:On the one hand, compared to the...
Harry, like you, I manually pollinate chillies when they are in door where theren't any insects to do the job. I definitely notice that without my...
Thanks Armandii. Initially we had a plan for planting. Over the years, there has been a fair amount of self-seeding, replacing failing plants...
Let's have a tour of the garden. Starting with the front garden, which is not very big but is crammed with colour most of the year. The skimmia in...
Yes, we have them here. Yesterday was warm and sunny, quite a few of them were out and about, some of them were mating. Shame I didn't see your...
I've never tried to grow samphire. It sounds quite troublesome. I grow saltwort instead on any normal garden soil and pick the young tender shoots...
Spring has reached South Gloucestershire! The snowdrops and crocus have finished, daffodils are fading, but the garden is finally coming to life....
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