That's a new name to me :blue thumb: [MEDIA]
This is one of my ultimate musical 'what the hell' moments - Sandie Shaw does The Smiths! [MEDIA]@Freddy - I'm in the Beathles were overated...
Back when I was growing Salvia in a big way I was living in the Cotswolds. I've never found any of the Wish series to have any real hardiness at...
There are a lot of Echium pinanana in St.james, as there are all over London, but the only E.candicans that I know of in St.James is the one by...
I agree that it is E.candicans. I did once flower it planted out in the garden in the Cotswolds, but not very well. [img]Echium candicans by...
Further to a comment I posted on another thread here is a photo that I took yesterday of a Cobaea in bloom in Notting Hill............ [img]Cobaea...
If we all liked the same things the world would be a very boring place!
As you guys know my personal circumstances changed so my only gardening and greenhouse is a couple of times a week at my parents. Although I am...
I'm not sure about P.alpestris but I have a couple of plants of Puya berteroniana growing and they need minimal care. Most winters they're...
The Aconitum seeds that I collected from Regents Park are germinating. Very high success rate too so I'm glad that I only stole a single seedhead....
All this talk of Led Zep and Robert Plant gives me the perfect excuse to post this on the 2022 thread.......... [MEDIA]Robert Plant (along with...
Valentines night we went to the BFI to see Casablanca! The first time that I've seen it on the big screen and the first time that Elizabeth had...
I would recommend the Shardlake series by C J Sansom. I was never a fan of historical fiction but these are at another level altogether, whatever...
I'm a big fan of Stuart Lee! He's very Marmite and I'm in the like camp. Extras was hilarious - getting guest stars to take the mick out of...
I daren't post this weeks listening up for fear of being banned - Bill Hicks (Rant in E Minor) and Chris Morris (Blue Jam). Soooo funny! Agree!...
Yes :roflol: The passage with the cheesegrater and the man parts is forever painted in my mind :yikes:
Spook Street by Mick Herron. If John le Carre wrote a light spy thriller with lashings of black humour this is what you'd get. An easy read and...
I've just finished Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan. It's a really good read, I wasn't even put off by the dialect which I can find a real turn off...
I can't claim any credit for this! An Amaryllis in an 8cm pot for a couple of quid piqued my interest and this is was emerged.......... [img]Dwarf...
Not so much buying as collecting from the various parks we visit! So far I've got Phlomis, a couple of Aconitums, Beschorneria, Solanum...
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