Weeded the next area for planting out dwarf French beans. Poor germination so will sow some more tomorrow, indoors as if outside the mice get the...
While I agree that the pollinators love the umbels it will spread everywhere.
At 6am all good. Sun still shining until 8.30am. Having new polytunnel erected and when they came at 9am still good but clouds developing. Then 12...
@RowlandsCastle We have this lily growing at the edge of our pond. This year it is magnificent in the number of flowers. However when I try to...
This Palaenopsis has been in flower for some 6 months now. Only paid £1 for it 4 years ago! [ATTACH]
Another of our orchids Dendrobium chrysotoxum. In total there are over 100 flowers. Fabulous colour, so vibrant. [ATTACH]
That was one of the things that we liked when we visited Farringford Gardens on the Isle of Wight. They had very cleverly mixed edibles, fruit and...
One of our Cattleya orchids. [ATTACH]
Hazel?
Weeded around the lavender bed. Removed self seeded plants from a huge pot. Cleaned it all out and put new compost in and sowed some annuals. Dug...
@noisette47 We had our first picking of asparagus today. And didn't they taste wonderful. These were from the "rogue" crown and we had 6 spears of...
After the rain this morning managed to finished refinding another path. Why do so many of our plants insist on growing outwards onto the paths?...
I am amazed how so many of you have your camera/phone just at the right time when you are out in your garden to take such superb photos. I never...
We have so many in our garden. They are very smelly when you pull them out!
@pitter-patter Stunning photos. Only seen one dragonfly very briefly yesterday morning. No chance of taking any fabulous photos like your. Brilliant.
Managed to do some work in the garden until 10.30am. Came indoors and then went to go back...drizzle. Then the rain set in and it is still raining...
Jack go to bed at noon (sometimes called salsify). [ATTACH]
@CarolineL Only 4 of the Cypripedium calceolus have produced flowers this year. Have cut them off hopefully to allow the plant to build up more...
@LunarSea I used to use the leaves of the ivy leaved toadflax to show the students I taught what stomata (tiny pores for the exchange of gases)...
A hornet again indoors. Is it the same one? Orange tips again. Can't be the same one all the time as they are all over the garden. 2...
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