Hi Eileen. Thanks for that, its something that I never really noticed or thought about before. When we first came here this property was quite a...
Hi Eileen. I do like to see clipped shrubs but depending on what they are. Its a small shrub anyway and its "twiggyness" lends it to clipping but...
Hi Eileen. I love Lilac for looks and perfume - very very well worth waiting for. Heres a pic of the dwarf one I mentioned.[ATTACH]
Hi Eileen, Kitty. Phlox whether big or small have always been firm favourites of mine and I cannot imagine a garden without some. I do so love...
Hi Jewell. Lovely to see it all happening but you are ahead of us with plants - our Clematis just making foliage and your Lilac finished already...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Heres a Choisya in bloom and a Viburnum tomentosum plicatum with masses of buds which will be flowering soon. Third...
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Hi Kitty. That Rose is a most beautiful brightish but dark red and is I think quite elderly. When we moved here near 5 years ago it was growing...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Have raised bed with selection of smaller plants, conifers and Alpines in it - these Phlox looking good at present.
Hi. Noticed these buds this morning - early really. The are on an old deep red climber growing on the garage wall. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Hi. All very nice indeed. Great to see the Pond Skaters.
Hi Jane. I find it so very interesting to look into the history of plants generally. You mention Peter Coats whom I know of but by coincidence...
Hi Eileen, Barb,all. I love this time of year - everything getting going again after winter, all the old friends c0ming back. Have six trees...
Hi Eileen. Who knows what its idea was but unusual for sure. Rooks are another bird which tend to be shunned and at a guess for the same reasons -...
Hi Eileen. Not me either but those little perishers (forgive language) are in abundance and can lacerate a plant in no time at all. Needless to...
Hi. As well as enjoying gardening generally and growing all our plants does anyone else like to read up on the history of the different plants -...
Hi. Apple and Pear Trees just coming into bloom. Second pic is a nice pink Prunus Amanagowa[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Hi all. They are lovely birds and I particularly like to see them in flight with that "dipping" up and down motion. Generally I observe they are...
Hi Frank, Barb, all. That Fly has quite a following - more popular than the Snail perhaps - could this be because Flies do not chew on Hostas...
Hi all. Wondered if anyone would spot that fly - it was there for some time . Good captions - you can almost hear its mind working - "now what?"....