@Scroggin Lovely. Ours are still in full leaf with no signs of flower buds but that is due to us not sowing (for various reasons) until a lot...
Well what a wonderful day. Family here for lunch so walking around the garden and then into the orchard (we did give them lunch later!). So so so...
@stronglodon we did Ham Wall and Greylake as well as the crane project. So interesting and meeting so many fabulous visitors.
@pete agree about the pinching out of the tops. We though grow dwarf broad beans and have to try different ways or times to sow.
Reminder to me @Logan check the blackcurrants tomorrow.
We bought a Magnolia "Lois" 3 years ago. It produced some very faint yellow flowers the following year. This year it had buds which all aborted....
@pete We had the same problem some years ago and then did what we should have done before...sowed in the Autumn. Not saying we didn't have...
Visited The Rib in Wells for NGS as weather stayed kind. The magnificent Cornus controversa Variegata certainly takes your breath away. Beautiful...
@strongylodon we used to pre covid volunteer at a rspb reserve. One year this young man turned up with his family on his way to...somewhere. He...
@Sheps why do you think that there are so few now? We have always had butterflies in our garden and now with our orchard we use to have more....
Hoping the weather stays kind so that we can visit The Rib in Wells tomorrow as part of the NGS. Always admired if from a far and hope to be able...
We don't need an alarm clock! For the last 3 mornings at 5.30am we have had a crow calling outside our dormer window and then attacking the window...
@misterQ we are very envious. A brilliant harvest. We have 3 eating cherry trees and a morello in our orchard. The pigeons attack the young leaves...
@Allotment Boy if we sow directly we see nothing as the mice get the seeds the same with peas.
Found the feathers of a pigeon on the lawn this morning and then found the remains at the very end of the orchard. Sparrowhawk probably having...
Seen again @Sheps but mowing the paths in the orchard not one butterfly.
The germination rate of our dwarf french beans has been terrible. I have now sown 2 whole packets indoors which I do every year and then...
This scarlet tiger moth near our pond. It was very reluctant to stay still. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
We carried on this afternoon with pruning back all the suckers from our bay tree. Lifted the endless branches of the male kiwi which wants to grow...
When we grew them outside it was badgers that took them. So now grown in the polytunnel with the bottom closed at night. Magpies and blackbirds...
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