I will be growing Pink Grapefruit, Cocktail Crush, Big Mama and Sanjits Indian Curry. I still have to give the greenhouse its annual...
Garrya elliptica. A lovely sub shrub/tree. Can be grown horizontally on a fence or wall. Stunning long tassels of catkins, silvery grey green...
A Happy, Healthy New Year to all. Here's wishing you all lots of success with your horticultural efforts this year.
I would bend it over and anchor the ariel roots onto another pot of bark, with a U of wire, beside the mother plant if you want to try propagating...
What a glorious gardening day yesterday was. Sunny, mild, no rain, no howling gales. I moved the lemon verbena and pomegranate into the...
What ever your complaint, keep complaining to the police, insist on it being logged. You may never see any obvious result but eventually, if...
Physical ability, closely followed by money available. Now in my dotage I cannot garden for long or do many of the jobs required. In my head I am...
Thank you everyone who sent me sympathies and support. I still feel pants but know I just have to work my way through it. It is heart breaking to...
Yesterday was a sad day. Robbie and I had to say our final goodbye to each other. He collapsed during Monday night and became worse at the vets....
I recently received an email from Octopus informing me that next year I will "have to have a new electricity meter box fitted with a Smart meter"....
Cornwall. Dull, dark, damp, grey, cold, mizzling.
Oh dear Michael. Calm down! Sometimes when a query is posted it receives a lot of comments, running into several pages so you have to go back to...
Nerines need a good hot bake to ripen the bulbs, good drainage and not very rich soil. A North facing site would not be ideal for them. You may...
Morning all. What a lovely morning so far. Blue sky and sunshine. I managed to get a line of washing dry, another load going out today. Rob looks...
Hello everyone. Thank you for your sympathy re the vets bill. Firstly, Rob's blood tests results show things are back to normal! Thank goodness...
My day did not turn out well. I took Rob to the vet for a blood test only to be told I needed to leave him for an hour and a half. I went and did...
There are different varieties of Jerusalem Artichokes, some smooth, some knobbly. I used to have a lovely smooth one but they spread so much I got...
Cornwall Dark, grey, overcast, very soggy. We are waiting for the next storm to come in later today after last nights deluge.
My family are half in Canada and half in the UK and we have finally stopped sending birthday and Christmas presents due to the cost of postage. We...
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