Leucathoe "rainbow". It's supposed to like damp shade, I've got plenty of that at the moment. Trouble is, a couple of years ago it was all dry...
Beautiful all day, ending with a fab sunset and Mr Blackbird singing his heart out.[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Long tailed tits in the garden this morning. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Yes, as they like to say in the gardening TV shows, you need "a thriller, a filler and a spiller" !
For rapid gratification you can't beat bulbs. You're too late for the spring ones (unless you buy them already in flower) but it's just the right...
I'm going to be trying verbena "pendula mixed" for the first time this year.
Frosty again with blue sky. Yesterday it got quite warm in the afternoon, especially in the front which gets full sun. The first erysimum flowers...
I have grown candytuft and cosmos in containers, sowing directly once the weather warms up. Both very popular with insects. Also french marigolds...
That's not a phrase I ever expect to be able to use!
I have bought red foxtail millet seeds, planning to sow a few this weekend.
Lots of birds gathering nesting materials now. I was watching a female blackbird who just couldn't work out her priorities. She would forage for...
Lovely sunny frosty morning. Thin ice on the bird baths and people scraping their windscreens.
I've been putting off cutting my verbenas as the bullfinches were eating the seeds! Haven't spotted any diners for a few weeks though so might...
Kalanchoe. [ATTACH]
I grew up in a very horsey family; my grandmother had a farm that didn't make any money and loads of horses that soaked up whatever money she did...
Pouring down yet again, garden a swamp.
Just went into Lidl for some fruit and came out with 2 campanulas (1 white and 1 purple, £3.50 each) and two packets of flower seeds (cosmos and...
Sky is clear here and stars amazingly bright considering I live in a big town. I could see Venus and Jupiter, both very bright - Venus almost like...
I have silver birches so my garden is always carpeted in loose brash, but that's not good enough for the wood pigeons - they have to sit in the...
Managed to get in an hour and half this morning, before the rain started. I have started on a bit of a project. A few years ago I did a large...
Separate names with a comma.
