The big problem here is the speed with which the snow might melt. The last lot went almost over night and that caused huge flooding problems round...
Went for my walk this morning, even though it is still snowing. The barn roof at the farm up the road has collapsed and the beams in there are...
Still snowing now after a sharp frost overnight. Beginning to feel that perhaps it was a good thing we had not been able to clear off the old top...
Just to add that it has not stopped snowing since I took the second set of images and the snow is now a foot deep. Nothing I know for parts of the...
This is our garden two weeks ago or so. http://s703.photobucket.com/user/Owdboggy/story/7707 and this is it yesterday....
There was due to be another show tomorrow in Manchester, but it has had to be cancelled because of the appalling weather.
They originate in parts of Italy where there is limestone and they grow under overhangs, so they get plenty of water at the roots, but very little...
One or three pictures of plants from this show. http://www.ideasforgardens.net/palustri ... pool_2013/
Sadly these Primula allionii will not grow outside. They need to be protected from rain.
Quite pleased with this one too [img] Prumula allionii HNG 12 ( photo / image / picture from Palustris's Garden ) Primula allionii HNG 12...
Showing this to see if Photobucket still works. [img]
With the new version of PB you have to klick on the star symbol at the top right of the image. This brings down a menu with the options for...
There is even a word for these misused terms. It is malapropisms from Mrs. Malaprop in Sheridan's play The Rivals. they are also called a...
Had to load these from Photobucket. [img]
This is a collage of some of our flowers. [img] Double Hellebores ( photo / image / picture from Palustris's Garden )
The only Hellebore which need their leaves trimming at this tme of year are the H. orientalis hybrids. Others like H, niger, x sternii. x...
I would just like to be ABLE to grow any of them!
We went to this show in Caerleon South Wales a week or so ago. It usually does not take this long to set up the Web pages, but I had forgotten...
They are bog plants, in the wild. so they need a sunny spot in very rich soil which retains moisture.
We dug all ours out after the first frost. I dug out the ones I missed yesterday. I will dig out the others I missed when I get round to digging...
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