Luckily, our winters are a bit too cold and damp for red palm weevil (rhynchophorus) and palm moth (paysandisia) to get a hold...although there...
I get growth on the cordys here in the south of England like Noisette gets, plus they self seed everywhere. Go for a trachycarpus. A bog standard...
I thought it was a stapelia, so looked it up. Turns out, to stop people getting too familiar with names, they decided to change it! Anyway, I've...
Latin is used because there are so many plants with common names that are the same. it's sometimes called tiger flower, but this leads to...
Nearly finished building the staging in the greenhouse, managed to overfill it with some of my tenders which have been out since March. Just the...
I always used to use the water from my tanks when I kept fish, never found any harm to the army of houseplants and massed ranks of summer bedding....
The seeds stick to you...like cleavers(galium aperine), doesn't seem as funny when explained:dunno:
Those canna seeds sure do act galiumesque at times!
I lift cannas and dahlias after the first frost, then store them dry in wood shavings. I restart them in March. From what I remember, Swansea is...
Some varieties can be sterile. They'll still produce pods, but no seeds. Some varieties are not sterile. They produce pods, but no seeds! I love...
Grasses (in my opinion) are normally quite well behaved...unless they seed everywhere, or become too large. Cortederia used to cause a lot of...
The photo doesn't look like a bamboo, more some sort of grass or sedge?
Chucked in a load of pansies and prims to replace petunias and impatiens. Sowed the rest of the phoenix dactylifera and a couple of musa species...
Or, it could be they are going into their winter dormancy so will drop all leaves. I have a couple that look exactly like that
All depends what bamboo you have as to its invasiveness. Is the 'red baron' imperata cylindrica rubra? I'm not going all technical with latin...
I must admit to spending a few nights fishing at Dungeness. That is the coldest place on earth in the depths of winter, so I can understand why...
I bought a load in the pound shop and trebled it up. They had fleece bags as well. Believe it or not, it was a quid a packet!
Reminds me of something with the mauve midrib....betony or comfrey or foxglove or....?
Well there's a post of literary exception. Words placed as if being offered a chance to entice the reader to experience the Autumnal brilliance of...
Well, lets hear you then! There is so much to admire about the riffs from the Eagles, makes me jealous I never found/made time to learn. I blame...
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