The bamboo behind the pagoda is a black bamboo, as you say it is very slow growing, I put a wire around it to stop it spreading. I also prune off...
This morning, I tackled my least favourite job in the garden. It's necessary every two or three years. This is our "bamboo forest" at the bottom...
I uploaded another video on You-Tube [MEDIA]
Did a bit of pruning. I prune this camelia every year about this time, just to keep it to this size. This reduces the number blooms we'll get each...
I recorded a couple of programmes featuring Tina Turner last week end, one was a two hour concert from 2009 and the other was a compilation of...
It took me two hours of tidying, weeding and vacccing to get the garden to this state this morning, (no mowing), yet I tell myself this is a "low...
I gave the garden a good watering this evening and all the pots. I'd normally mow the lawns tomorrow but due to the continual sunshine I'll leave...
I noticed on a trail camera video that a black cat was taking an unwelcome interest in 'arry's feeding station around 3.00am this morning. It...
Played my usual Friday round of golf in the regular roll-up, it was four three-balls yesterday. The team with the most points are the winners....
Hi Sean and welcome. Here in North-West England, we haven't seen rain in over a week! As a county we have a lot of rain in the year, but a couple...
I cleared all the fallen wisteria blossoms off the path and patio. Then gave the patio a good scrub with soapy water with my deck scrubber.Lots of...
This was one of the several roses, banished to "the alley of shame" (the drive at the side of the house), by my wife, she dislikes red roses. this...
Hi and welcome!
Dug the grass out of the rockery. There's wasn't much, but it irritates me when I'm looking out of the French windows and I can see a few fronds...
The jobs's done. The door is now 'arry proof, (as long as I always remember to close it!) [IMG] [IMG] I'll still be able to push my sack...
Just one job, as there's a lot of tennis on TV today. Last night, after 'arry had eaten his dinner, he returned to the patio at about half past...
I do find myself jobs to do. I have this little cupboard in the tea-house. [IMG] It's one I saved from when we had a new kitchen over fifteen...
Due to the warm weather our tortoise shell rhodo has made an early appearance. It was the same size as the white one in the foreground when we...
Did a bit more this evening. Pruned off the dying wisteria blooms on the one between the tea-house and shed. Had a few other jobs to do,...
Hi and welcome. That's quite a small lawn and fences will mean that it'll be shaded for part of the day,which will restrict the growth. It looks...
