@Sheal I do hope you are wrong as I've move lots of other plants around it to give it room to do itself justice hoping it was something rather...
Bought yet more plants I don't really need/have room for including some Penstemon Pinacolada White which I'd not heard of before, so a bit of...
Gorgeous sunny day all day 14c and a gentle breeze.Spent most of the day in the garden (apart from the time I was up at the nursery buying yet...
@silu glad you said about your large acers having the dead upper sections, thought it was just me. I always thought it was the nasty cold winds...
Ah, I do feel for you. But who hasn't got a few unwelcome garden visitors ...Celandines - pretty but a pest Japanese Anemone - stupidly planted...
@longk I will take a pic when it is more open, thanks @Trunky an Escallonia was sitting on top of itGG
Ah, it was buried under a large shrub for years, but now you mention it a peony does seem likely. However amusing a triffid in my garden might be...
This has appeared where I'd moved a large shrub, can anyone ID it at this early stage? Not even sure if it is welcome or not ...[ATTACH]...
Been very rainy so quite squelchy underfoot, during rain let ups have been out placing pots of perennials I've overwintered in pots into likely...
I was a bit bored as it was pishing down but not hard enough to deter me from a drive-by nursery hit and bought:A few Polemonium Caeruleum A few...
Hey, happy BD grinchy! And an enjoyable gardening year ahead ...GG
Garden looks lovely. Can I ask, is the yellowish (painted/stained?) table and chairs a design that is common there? Is it your handywork? Did...
Just a bit of info for a bit later in the month. My potatoes are in as mentioned above. I shall be away for a month soonish. I'm wondering if I...
I'm almost finished The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obssession by Andrea Wulf.I would highly recommend it. Rather...
Not sure if it will be of interest but noticed that my local Lidl had a lot of fuchsias for sale today in I think 6 packs. It was raining so I...
Hello Quinns and welcomeIt is difficult to see exactly from your photo. But, though I am no expert, as a general rule with mine, I first let...
Thanks Nigel, I feared that. I did dig a few up just to examine them and found it very hard to find the tubercles as you call them ( was looking...
Ah, seems like I'm either ahead of the pack or have foolishly jumped the gun :scratch: Did I read somewhere that for potatoes to test the soil,...
I generally have a patch of Celandines which I really like and enjoy. They have tended to keep pretty much to the back corner part of the garden...
@Anthony Rogers when did you plant yours chitters out? @JWK and ditto for yours and what are you growing apart from the Sarpos? Yes I did see that...
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