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.
Monarda punctata to the rest of us. At least I was in the correct genus, the Lamium family.
With bracts like that it really looks like some kind of Salvia.
Geranium of some description?
The more widely spread a plant, the more likely it is to have lots of different names. This plant is spread throughout Britain so it has a lot of...
According to the book by C.T. Prime there are over 100 names for this plant.
Taken me a while to process these pictures, actually been doing some gardening! http://www.ideasforgardens.net/palustris/EastCheshire
We moved here 15 years ago and it was just a rubbish filled weed infested area. http://www.ideasforgardens.net/Berghill-FGT/ That is what it...
If it is the same as the Dead nettle we have, I think the smell of the leaves is utterly disgusting.
Hyacinthoides hispanica, syn. Endymion hispanicus or Scilla hispanica) if you want to look them up.
