awwww cute! My hubby tells me that near to where his parents live in Denmark there is an old church where ducklings nest and hatch their young...
All sorts really, a couple of honeysuckles for the arbour, some hostas and ferns for a shady spot (around where the new pond will go), bits and...
Finally a morning of nice, persistent rain! Never before in my life have I enjoyed rain so much! My garden gets a good drenching! And it is a nice...
Ok I decided to go for the honeysuckle in containers. I got these kind of containers with a "false floor" acting as a water reservoir, so I...
Don't laugh if this is totally silly! I have an arbour bench in the garden which has "built on" baskets to the bottom sides to put plant pots in....
We went by a local garden centre today (one of about 300 in a rather compact area in the Clyde Valley) and spent about �£70 on various plants....
About horse manure: Two guys meet at the racecourse, one shovelling horse manure into a big black bag. "What you going to do with that?" the other...
Spot on with the plastic, Dave! I can't believe how bad Britain still is when it comes to recycling - in Germany you would go to jail if you...
I just have to ask this question... I am sitting at work and fumbling through May 2006's "Gardener's World" (yes, I am sad!), and on page 51 in...
Honey Bee, she didn't, did she???? For crying out loud, that's beyond being stupid! What are people thinking?????
Poor you! We have 4 cats too but they are posh. They are mainly housecats although we do take them with us when we are out in the garden. But they...
Also, you get the green ones fresh all year - the white ones are in season only from 21st of April until 21st of June (a bit earlier for the...
Thing is, they are not really the same. The taste is distinctly different - I like the green stuff in ragouts and bakes but not as a standalone...
Nah it is in a nicely sheltered spot between the pampas grass and the rhubarb and should not blow all over the place - the new flowerbed is on the...
The previous owners of our house (and garden) had a tendency to nail the doors of the units of their replaced kitchen onto the fences - perhaps in...
... a friend just had her parents over from Germany and she brought some white asparagus with her - the season has just started! I got a kilo too...
Well, in my case no choice but digging as the soil is (for the most part "was" as I have about 2 square metres of flowerbed left to do! *bounce*)...
Our chickens back home were fed their eggshells for calcium (to make new strong shells - if they did not get enough shells their newly laid eggs...
Oh my beloved couchgrass! How I came to loathe them! My freshly dug flowerbeds are full of them - one spadefull of soil turned over, bend down,...
before: "garden" as seen from the "wild corner" last summer, as you can see, the old iron shed (a major headache!), our lovely little apple tree...
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