Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the comments!Hopefully this year can have lots more time sat watching the fish rather than making them a new...
Good quality plants too.
As pete says the usual house plant yucca is Y elephantipies and generally this is not that hardy. But in London, if planted in a sheltered spot...
With the greenhouses, we do provide some heat, but work on frost free, rather than keeping "warm". on the darker sides and at the bottom we use...
Greenhouses tend to have lots of gaps and drafts, plus hort glass (or safety) is pretty poor at insulating. we do use bubble wrap on the 2...
If you are more interested in the plants, we put together a series of photos just of the plants in the raised beds by the pond...
For many plants the biggest risk is the damp, trying to keep things on the dry side can help, but then you have the risk of RSM (red spider mite)
Jobs for 2014... too many!, replant the area damaged by fire, build shed for fish quarantine pond, maybe rebuild existing garden shed to be...
Its much cheaper to provide artificial light to a dark warmer space than to heat a bright cold one.We use an insulated outbuilding with minimal...
Theres plenty of cross over between the two styles, both can have quite a relaxed approach to design and appear to be unplanned in style and...
Not quite, but i suspect a couple of them would take to it if we tried a bit more often
We have about 15-20 koi - i dont actually know how many, but id miss one if it wasnt there. The oldest we have had for about 5 years, maybe a...
The gift of ginkgos was from a good friend of ours, who did not want us to publicly name. We were very touched.We have shown some pics of the...
Thanks everyone for the comments :) Much appreciatedJoolz, on that side of the shed every tile was nailed down to avoid any slipping, hopefully...
From palm centre?
These photos were before the fire, however the pond area escaped any real damage, a couple of plants were damaged by the firemen rather than fire,...
We used to grow butia palms in then garden (the names have all been reclassified and most nurseries still go by the old names but not always). We...
With a busy second half to the year, dealing with the aftermath of the fire in the garden and a house renovation, we have only just sorted out...
10 days after the fire and we are getting on with things. As mentioned in the blog post above we have building works on the house at the moment...
Thanks everyone for their kind words and thoughts. After the initial shock we are trying to stay positive and be optimistic for the future. We...
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