Viburnum x bodnantense Dawn a week apart. [img] V. Dawn ( photo / image / picture from Palustris's Garden ) [img] ( photo /...
Cal. We are fortunate in that Viburnums do well here, We have about 25 of them and most do have a good scent, but not all. V. carlesii is good,...
Shows, we had the driest Summer here. On average we had about 1 inch of rain per month from May until November. Some of the local rivers stopped...
What Sun? Yes. but the cost of one is out of our price range and the reports on them are not flattering. The pond is big enough and deep enough...
The trouble with water features like those, is the need for electricity and the pond is a long way from the house. Taking a cable down there would...
The Gentiana flower is about 2 inches long and about an inch across at the mouth. The whole plant normally produces 20 or so blooms in Spring and...
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...
