It's thawed a lot overnight so the garden is gradually beginning to emerge and there are parches of green. The birds are happy and so am I. It's...
Gardening? No way! It looks really beautiful -intense blue sky, glittering snow and brilliant sunshine, but it is colder than yesterday. The...
The garden looks beautiful, but no hope of any gardening yet as we still have deep snow. I went out for a quick look but on our uneven terrain it...
Nothing doing here either, it's a wonderful, monochrome world! It snowed more overnight and snow is 6 inches deep and still snowing heavily...
I took a very deep breath last year and made myself throw out all my old seed packets that were past use by date. There were an awful lot of them!...
It must be countable or I won`t be able to count the day I lifted the tarp on the piles of soil in the compost castle to see how it was getting...
I was pleased and rather surprised that I managed some actual hands on gardening on the 29th and 30th.It felt so good to be outside in pleasant...
You've got company Ladybird4, another with the lurgy, hoping pills will fend off the worst. Luckily it's only us here for Xmas, though daughter...
I find it helps to remember the name if you sing it. Maybe check no one else within earshot though!
The cold made lots of things hungry, as it was such a sudden change, down to - 4C here. We had lots of birds to feed and the snow showed lots of...
I have Crocosmia Carmine Brillfant which is very pretty, non invasive and only makes it to about a yard high. It would go well with your...
I have moved ferns and they are fairly forgiving if you get plenty of root and keep them well watered. Autumn or spring is best, so they don't...
I'm going out on a limb here , but I'm honestly not boasting. Yes, it has been very wet and grey and soggy, but though we have plenty of slugs...
I agree with all the others about the orange 'Montbretia'. I have been fighting this beast for several years and now have only a few strays and...
Has it come under the fence? That might explain both 'can't remember ' and 'doesn't seed around':smile:
I did my morning window sill patrol which led to some potting up of artichokes and Uchiki kuri squash and a trayful of Echium seedlings and some...
It was still very blustery, but warm, and I went to try to reclaim more of my veg beds that were neglected last year because work on the field...
The fungus is probably growing on the wood chip as it decays. You can remove the fruiting bodies if they bother you, but there will be a...
Our poor daffodils have been dancing till they dropped! I've got 3 large vases full of windfalls already and no doubt more when I go outside....
Our house sits on a ledge carved out of the hillside several generations ago and there are several bits of the garden where accessibility is...
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