Summer pruned the main white grape vines which we used for wine later in the year. They have produced abundant growth so quickly this year. Then...
Yesterday we had one red kite floating over the garden and today we had 2. There were 2 more birds much further away and they could have been...
We have the gooseberry ones and at the moment they are decimating the bushes but thankfully the fruits are still ok if not a very reduced harvest....
@strongylodon You really do need to produce a book about the wild orchids you have found. They are amazing.
When we have pots with bulbs in them the squirrels are the culprits.
Had a fabulous view of a red kite gliding over the garden this morning. A robin stayed with me while I picked the gooseberries and did take some...
@pete stunning photos. We used to have Dracunculus and yes the smell was something to avoid. The flies loved it but we never had any seeds form. 2...
Weeded in the polytunnel before it was too hot. Dug up an enormous grass clump that shouldn't have been where it was. Trimmed back the winter box....
@ViewAhead I think your second photo is bugle. We have it our garden and the bees love it.
@NigelJ Some fabulous photos showing so many plants that we now don't have. Lovely to see them again.
Well going against all... we were given some dahlias many years ago from our younger son now deceased and planted them under an apple tree near...
@RowlandsCastle you are finding so many fabulous new plants in your new garden. Brilliant and thank you for sharing so many as well as all the the...
We have Calendula offinicalis that have self seeded from some where else in our polytunnel. We allow them to grow and pollinate so that any white...
Leaves look wrong for the nightshades.
It does sound like a tawny but then little owls can also make that sound. How lovely though to have them nearby.
Weeded the next area in the veg patch. Had kept it covered with membrane that this time did work. Not too many weeds apart from the areas not...
As you can see I do love poppies. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Is your orchid one of the Phalaenopsis, moth orchid? If so then if the flowering stems are going brown then they will not flower from that stem...
We also get black fly and ants on our artichokes but thankfully they don't seem to cause too much of a problem. When we cut them for eating I put...
Very windy so difficult to photo the flowers of our kiwi. [ATTACH]
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