Garage Doors Finally Painted
All the constant August rain has been my fault. At the beginning of the month we started work…
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All the constant August rain has been my fault. At the beginning of the month we started work…
You get used to looking at the same thing every day and it is only when you look…
A long long term project all this, to tart up the side at the front. It started a…
It seems amazing sometimes that from a bare garden in the middle of winter all this is hiding…
The whole garden is full of daisies, big ones, small ones, ones yet to appear!
Hidden behind the planks of wood (a future project… one day) are the wild strawberries and the tayberry…
We sowed meadow and wild flower seed in the front garden a number of years ago and ever…
The wild flowers in the front garden grass have all come out once again and made the front…
The two gooseberry bushes in the front garden have not had a good life so far, they seem…
For years I have wanted raspberries but never got round to sorting out ground to put them in.…
For years I have wanted raspberries but never got round to sorting out ground to put them in. …
On the local Freecycle cafe list a post from Leslie appeared offering his services to not just prune…
On the local Freecycle cafe list a post from Leslie appeared offering his services to not just prune…
Out of the cold and dark of January comes… our first snowdrop! For a month where we have…
Out of the cold and dark of January comes… our first snowdrop! For a month where we have…
It must be said that it has been raining since the 1st of November and it has not…
It must be said that it has been raining since the 1st of November and it has not…
A bit late, BBC Tree O’ Clock was on the 5th of December 2009 (see http://www.bbc.co.uk/breathingplaces/treeoclock/) but for…
I took cuttings of plants from another person’s garden (with their permission I may add) the other month. …
One minute a bush of blue looking all proud, and then the rain came! Over night it pounded…
A bit of a tidy up and preparations for autumn and winter. It seems all a bit early,…
It is noticeable that the evenings are darker and the mornings are colder, but we have the sunflowers…
The sunflowers in the front garden are giving some colour now that other plants are starting to die…
The poles seem to sturdy when you put them in, and yet within not too long the wind…
I ordered these via a special offer in the BBC Gardeners World magazine quite a while ago. Last…
These look just so great and is what I have tried to make the garden be all about,…
Having never grown Sweet Potatoes before it has been quite exciting with the seeds we got from the…
The bad weather has taken its toll a bit, although now that has stopped and we are back…
Notice here that the right-hand side has little growth whereas the rest is having a great time growing. …
An old packet of “self seeing meadow flowers” it said. So I thought I either throw the old…
This fuschia is looking fantastic at the moment with its many white flowers against the dark fence and…
You can hardly see them, but there are a number of runner bean plants slowly growing here. I…
# It has all been very much hit and miss with sunflowers this year. To start with, non…
Moved slightly along this year, still using the green and read poles from last. Ihave not had much…
By the end of May the front garden is always looking good but still full of promise for…
After a couple of weeks of non-cutting the patch of grass in the front and it has come…
May has been a month of mixed weather. It started off like summer time but soon we were…
I’ve kept this photo quite large, I like how the little ant is climbing up too. Just one…
These Wild Strawberries are fantastic! I bought four plants the other year, two survived (not helped by the…
More signs that a new year is just beginning, spring is here. Last year I picked up a…
Last year we had two blueberries from this bush. It was its first year so I was not…
We had little success with the two gooseberry bushes last year, the leaves seemed to get eaten over…
I noticed one or two buds starting to show some leaf which means in a couple of days…
A Woolworths reject from last year. It did show signs of life last year just before some creature…
Early October and the sunflowers in the front are still looking good. Just as you think it has…
rain rain rain rain rain….. sunflowers still hanging on. The extra grass seed that we planted is starting…
It must be autumn, not only are the mornings so dark and depressing, but after last weekend of…
We bought some top soil, the first time ever I had bought it! Normaly I have managed to…
It’s windy and rainy…. which means the sunflowers at the front are a little bit sideways. But still,…
The time has nearly come to do something about the grass in the front. It has come a…