Both the Lonicera are well scented, but this is the most scented of all. [img] Viburnum x bodnantense Dawn ( photo / image / picture from...
Some more December blooms [img] Antirrhinum molle ( photo / image / picture from Palustris's Garden ) [img] Gentiana acaulis (...
Best of luck with them. We are lucky in that we are surrounded by fields of Oil seed Rape and Brassica aphids go for them rather than ours...
Also applies to any caterpillars which need to be hand picked off. We check about once a week for aphids.
The black stuff is insect 'detritus' in all probability. They get onto the sprouts as they form and leave their droppings and the sprout forms...
They are probably the least maintained part f our garden. Once they are up and running they look after themselves. We do not have fish in this one...
Thanks for the ID. It sat on a leaf for ages and I asked it to wait until I came in and got the camera. Believe it or not, it was still in the...
Refurbishing the pond. At the beginning of this year we realised that the wild life pond had less water in it than it should. There was also a...
Does look like it took a while, but in fact I think I did it in less than a week.
The nice thing about a Crevice garden is that you do not need a slope to build one.
A New Crevice Garden and Alpine Lawn. One fine Spring evening we were sat on the Swing seat, enjoying the last of the sunshine. To our...
The soap washes off the sugar which when left on may lead to the seed getting a fungal infection.
Cyclamen hederifolium seeds (outdoors in Britain) ripen in July (ish). You can tell when they are ready as the pod goes a bit papery and begins to...
We have limited access at the moment which makes doing anything other than a quick text message, very hard. The local library is a 20 mile drive...
We no longer have easily used affordable Internet. BT have pulled the plug on our ISP's Free phone line so now we can only get Pay as You go. This...
Nor from me, but we do have Iris of both those hues.
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