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Blues Aquilegia Purple gromwell (even though it looks blue now) Bugle

Thank you @Victoria, each leaf looks like a watercolour, I like the subtle lime green!

Its 20c here and some good sunny spells, some real heat in the sun now but the first I've noticed as its only been weak hazy sunshine on and off for weeks.

Fertilized the garlic and onions today, the garlic looking a bit yellow from all the rain I think. Four foot since they went in late September for some of them.Final harvest of PSB and ripped the plants out. They'll be replaced by Brussels sprouts and lettuce in a couple of weeks when they are...

@Topbird For the garden itself, it takes care of itself with rain from mother nature. I am going to have much less colorful pots of flowers than last year. But what I usually do is have plastic gallon containers full of water that will set next to the potted annuals, and my neighbor will...

What worries me is the again.

I got some Aldi Enriched Multipurpose today. Pretty fine, couple of twiggy bits, lot better looking than the levington peat free I'd bought for a similar price. I'd start seeds in it. Just used it to repot the squash modules

Lovely warm day! Virtually emptied the potting shed onto the shelf and put the wall/hanging baskets out for the day. Moved the sunflowers from the cold frame (where it seems the slugs/snails are ingenious and ate one despite my having raised the trays on pots....) to the back shelf, they can go...

Competion doesn't really exist, although they like to tell us it does. Price fixing is going on all the time in every thing we buy. And the more expensive things are the bigger the tax rake off. So no chance any government is ever going to change things.

What a morning. Beautiful blue sky, no wind and WARM. So the wildlife agreed. Butterflies abounded...orange tips, brimstone, holly blue, speckled wood, large white, peacock, red admiral and some others too quick to ID. Then the bees...hopeless at IDing them but so many different ones around. ONE...

Following @strongylodon's picture above, my Poincettia is still blooming and will be cut back soon to one meter ...Now that the Viburnum has been cut back to two meters (in background), light and sun has come to the Jacaranda by the path so it has come to life again ...