The Path Plods On
I thought it would take just a couple of days to get the path finished once I had…
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Free wood leads to new project
I plan to make a start on this over the weekend. The other week we managed to pick…
Slow slow start to 2011
Lots of promise for 2011 but yet any to be lived out. So far work in the garden…
Tell the Cats to Keep Off
Let us see how long this lasts before the cats dig it all up…..
We Have Rain!
After two months of sun sun sun, we have rain rain rain! The weather suggests drizzle for the…
Decking Renewed
Due to this and that, I never treated the decking with anything last year, something which is normally…
Back from the Dead
I thought we had seen the last of our passion flower when after the winter it just stayed…
Mel’s Mix – The Ingredients
Vermiculite it seems is hard to get hold of in the States from what I read on the…
Square foot gardening to start? Goodbye concrete!
This bit of concrete has been marked for a long time to be where we will eventually have…
Plum Tree Pruning – Take 2
Last weekend I had my first go at pruning the plum tree and after a comment from a…
Plum Tree Pruning – Take 2
Last weekend I had my first go at pruning the plum tree and after a comment from a…
Pruning the plum tree
This is our cherry tree that grows plums (a long story explained in previous posts). During the summer…
Pruning the Plum Tree
This is our cherry tree that grows plums (a long story explained in previous posts). During the summer…
Mile a Minute Reaches for the Sky
There is a short story behind the Mile A Minute planted on the back fence and taking over…
Lavender Pruned
From something rather overgrown to something a much neater. I had to cut into the wood a bit…
September 2009
A bit of a tidy up and preparations for autumn and winter. It seems all a bit early,…
Plums everywhere apart from on the tree!
I was so delighted the other month to find out out that our non flowering cherry tree had…
A Cherry Tree with Plums
Our garden has an ornamental cherry tree which has always been nice, given fantastic blossom in the spring…
Finally Looked at the Back Bed
This bed at the back of the garden has not really been touched for years and it really…
Cherries
For a non fruiting cherry tree we are getting quite a lot of cherries this year!
Old Seeds Sowed – Go Away Cat!
The main flower bed in the back garden has not been touched for some months and was starting…
Blackcurrent has had a better time
This is a rather sad picture of the blackcurrent bush. I don’t quite know what is going wrong…
We have this bit of concrete…
… in the corner of the garden that once had a shed on it. Unfortunatly the previous owners…
Bad Fence
We have a nice area of decking, we can sit at the table, we can see the Clematis…
Lavender Trimmed and New Plants Added
The other week I mentioned that really I woud like to replace the lavender as it had got…
At Last We See The Flowering Clematis
The first year we never saw any flowers as we planted it late in the year, the second…
Lavender Ready for Renewal?
This has taken quite a bit of rough treatment over the years, even more so when we got…
RIP Big Sunflowers
They have been still standing tall but with bowed heads and died flowers for some time. At the…
The Late Seeds – Result
The seeds that were planted a little bit late (see http://sunflowers.moleville.co.uk/more-seeds-too-late/) have had semi success. They took a…
w17 – Sunflowers finished in the back
“Didn’t they do well?” I am quite pleased, and now we have a load of massive sunflower heads…
Small Sunflower
Out of all the large sunflowers, there were two that never really grew. One just seemed to not…
Seeds were maybe too late…
The flower seeds that I sowed late and didn’t really know if it was a bit too late…
@week13 – sunflowers
Mostly now all flowering, def all stopped growing and now onto their flowers.
Seeds in the Back
We are starting to get a nice display of ‘flowers for wildlife’ at the back. The seeds we…
Patio cleaned up
We spent a lot of the day tarting up the patio area. One day this will all be…
Flower Bed at the Back
I am not too sure about this bit of the garden. It houses the worlds biggest collection of…
Flower Seeds now Showing
The photo does not do it any justice, but here we have the seeds that I sowed the…
Radishes and Rocket Planted
Underneath the towering sunflowers, tonight we put in some radish and rocket seed. Something quick and simple and…
Last Seeds of the Year
Only just in time, we shall see what happens. I have put netting in top to stop…
More Seeds – Too Late?
It is beginning of June, I am leaving it all a bit late if I want to sow…
@Seven Weeks – Wildflower seed
T&J ‘helped’ to sow these seeds and it has been hard to work out in the past if…
June 2008
The front – I cut the grass for the first time at the weekend with a new snazzy…
Cutting back Honeysuckle
Around this time last year we completely cut down the honeysuckle as we needed to replace the fence it was…
Lavender – the Parents
Following the success in the lavender cuttings, here are their parents – all looking good and ready to…
New Life – Clematis
We had a nice little Clematis in the back garden going up the fence by the decking…. until…
White Spuce Planted
We have had it for some time now, in a pot and ready to be planted. I finally…