I label my plants, as I like to remember the different varieties, and also to help my husband who is trying to learn them. I am trying black...
Bauble blower
What a lovely shrub! (disappears off to the Gc...)
Smorgasbord chef
Helium balloon filler
Cordial taster
Artichoke grower
Hmm, looks like it might be a beefsteak fungus, Fistulina hepatica. Usually forms decent sized brackets, but yours might be a baby. Edible!
It is one of the coral fungi. Not toxic as far as I know.
I just check the trap after breakfast, and then release each moth into a suitable sheltered spot in the garden where they are reasonably...
That particular bulb is OK in the rain, and the electrics are low voltage, so I just have to put a plastic crate over the battery. It is best to...
Hi, I have a portable skinner type trap, 12v, running off a leisure battery.[IMG]Watkins and Doncaster sell both battery and mains powered...
Can I join in and use acres?!My lawn is about an acre but I leave a lot of it to meadow. I have a walk-behind Honda, which just about copes...
I had the same problem. I decanted mine into a metal watering can with a coarse rose, which worked, but it has put me off buying them next year.
Yes, red pots from Wyevale.
I bought two potted glen ample in the winter, obviously with bare twigs, and the remained that way...Didn't grow at all. The Autumn bliss I...
I found this Common Carder Bumblebee in my kitchen, exhausted and unable to fly after trying to find a way out. I offered a spoonful of sugar...
You are thinking of herringbone cotoneaster. This is a larger leaved type, possibly C. cornubia.
Yes, it is a crocosmia, but probably the wild type, commonly known as montbretia. It is pretty tough, but yours looks a bit dry and starved. If...
All I can remember about oxalic axid from my years as a lab tech is that we used it to get rust stains off test tubes!
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