Winter is the time to catch up on batch Indian cooking (interesting for the first few weeks), bricolage (ditto), housework (buerk) and sewing...
They're wonderful for self-seeding, aren't they Caroline? :biggrin:
Isn't nature wonderful, though! It just shows what a difference it makes sowing fresh seed.
I'd be happy to send you some corms of my big, pink Dierama. I split it last week. Originally from seed of D. pulcherrimum Slieve Donard Hybrids....
I don't blame you! Vicious things! I don't get loquats every year, it does depend on the severity of the winter frosts, but I'd grow it anyway...
Yes, mine have been covered in flowers for about a month now so hopefully the fruit will set before the air frosts start. I used to fleece them...
It's done tacitly, unofficially, over here. My dear friend was in the same situation a few years ago. The docs took the treatment for pancreatic...
I do a lot of fruit salads. You can hide all sorts of things in those :biggrin:
It's common name is pineapple guava but I wouldn't say it particularly tastes of pineapple either :biggrin: Just a pleasant, sweet, slightly...
Battening down the hatches ready for the first frost on Thursday. All the terrace plants are safely tucked under the roof, bananananana (I know...
Yes they are, Victoria, and really delicious!
When I brought them back to UK, they were washed in mild insecticide solution (no soil) and wrapped in beach towels to protect them from the cold...
Brrrrr! Winter drawers on from tomorrow :sad: 11C / 3C but at least it will be sunny. That makes all the difference!
I took the plunge and bought a 'Violet de Mèze' earlier this year. It's been planted near the pool but not in the most sheltered spot, so will be...
I've got to brace myself for chain-sawing some hefty oak beams as they're needed to make a new raised bed and there's no chance of moving them as...
Did you work for a GPS company in a former life, Sheal? :biggrin:
Hello, welcome to GC! I did something like that in a client's garden with a Hydrangea petiolaris that had grown way too big. It survived, didn't...
For anyone wanting an alternative to grass, try Phyla nodiflorum. It's fast, it's evergreen and when it's finished covering your designated lawn...
I've got a standard Wisteria with a similar problem, first spotted about 5 years ago. The base of the trunk was surrounded by damp foliage of...
It was just the opposite here. The only boundary markers between our garden and the neighbouring fields are metal and plastic markers (bornes) at...
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