A half price offer and a sunny day was good for another visit. A few flowering trees and shrubs out and a few I am not familiar with. We only...
My once a year trip to Slimbridge Wetland Centre, it's a 3 hour drive each way but worth it for the winter birds. There is a captive world...
For foliage plants. My biggest three.Begonia luxurians. [ATTACH]Coleus, flower stem removes and two side branches removes for cuttings which...
Palace Gardens, Innsbruck. [ATTACH][ATTACH]Cleome seems to be in most flowerbeds in small towns such as here in Mittenwald and always...
I have only had these a couple of months, bought to go in a big bowl with others but there was no room so I put them together and this one...
My small collection of Alocasias growing in the living room. A amazonica Poly, a few years old. [ATTACH]A amazonica Bambino. [ATTACH]A...
First visit this year as it only opened today. Dull and cool and not good for photos. Red Squirrels as usual. [ATTACH][ATTACH]The lagoon was...
Spathodea c lutea, I have neve seen this yellow variety before. [ATTACH]Double Poinsettia. [ATTACH]Erythrina sp rosea. [ATTACH]Pyrostegia...
A bitterly cold and windy day yesterday, took 3 hours to get there. I wanted to see some of the winter visiting birds I don't see in Dorset....
A few from the glasshouse. Achmea mariae reginae. [ATTACH]Anthurium zizou. [ATTACH]Aphelandra White Wash. [ATTACH]Hibiscus cooperi var....
Can anyone ID this wild flower, seen in a cemetery. [ATTACH]
I went to Slimbridge yesterday to see the Winter wildfowl, a three hour journey. There are thousands of overwintering birds there some from...
I saw this in the Range for £12 instead of £26 so I thought I would have it but as most Washys in GCs now are all grown with three or four plants...
A visit to the Gardens yesterday, we haven't been there since '11. Mediterranean rather than Sub Tropical. A few of the more unusual trees. The...
Just an update on the Banksia sent as seedlings from @CarolineL. I was only able to keep one due to lack of space but it is a fair size now. July...
Just a heads up for anyone interested, there seems to be another Rosy Starling eruption from Eastern Europe and a few have reached our shores as a...
Anyone who has an account with Jersey Plants Direct will probably know that they are now Gardening Direct, nothing has changed EXCEPT postage is...
Sheltered on the south coast the gardens are well protected and have a good display of plants difficult to grow else well elsewhere. Two of the...
Four orchids seen at Badbury Rings, two I have never seen before. Pyramidal orchid. [ATTACH]Common Spotted Orchid. [ATTACH]Common Twayblade,...
This one has been in the ground for about 7 years and as expected growing very slowly but it has just started to show flower sheathes, do they...
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