Just to report that I found a good deal on a small specimen online and look forward to welcoming it to my garden :yes: Thank you all very much...
Yes, I am sure that this one has lived outside in its pot for several years now, in our London microclimate. I should have said, I took the photo...
Yes that's it! I will have to give it a try. Many thanks @pete
I've always admired this plant with its blue flower spikes, which grows in a neighbour's sheltered front garden and has been there for several...
Something I really like are these lightweight gardening clogs from backdoorshoes which must be five or more years old now, and still going strong....
@JWK beat me to it with Sanseveria, which come in a wide range of colours and shapes - I have a tall striped one here. Lidl also had some last...
I have Genii and low-growing Sunray here, both completely hardy. Also Fuchsia microphylla which is meant to be frost-tender, but that is the one...
I have, in the past, successfully rehomed some goldfish through my local Freecycle group - in theory that doesn't accept listings for live...
All the basic tools I would suggest have already been mentioned, I think - fork, spade, hoe, trowel, hand fork, secateurs, tub trugs (four here of...
I have here in my small garden and am very pleased with Laura, mentioned above. Pretty flowers, leaves and fruits, the last of which also cook up...
It looks quite an urban setting? Round here in London the usual solution is privet, which quickly grows tall but will need cutting several times a...
Thank you all very much! I love the thought of @Black Dog's mysterious travelling plant, and @JWK made Chester sound tempting - I gather that also...
Can anyone recommend me a well-flavoured thornless blackberry variety?The one I've got here at the moment is 'Oregon Thornless', but it's never...
I have here some old oiled teak and aluminium chairs - the aluminium was originally powder-coated white. When it began to go I rubbed them down...
It does look rather a dark corner. A lower-risk strategy would be a forsythia or a kerria japonica, both of which would also give you that late...
Rhododendron simsii - an indoor azalea. This was given to me for Christmas, arrived directly from Thompson & Morgan. I was impressed by its...
Happy New Year! I have never grown one in the UK, but in our courtyard garden in the Languedoc (SW France) my family used to have a 'mimosa des 4...
The Holly and the Ivy, 2(with the lights on!)[ATTACH]
Thank you everybody, I hadn't thought of the photo competition! Have just taken a couple more shots and added them in to that.
The Holly and the Ivy, 1: [ATTACH]
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