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You take amazing pictures! All of your photos are so neat!

What a view! Is this a cemetery? I see the headstones, or what I would guess is headstones. I frequent cemetery gardens myself. I love the care and meaning behind everything. Plants in such an honoring and reflective setting. And such variety.

Beautiful picture!

Kitty heaven.

Fantastic! Nice textures.

Lipstick is all I know as common name. This is the classic, thick waxy leaves and purple tubular bracts with scarlet blossoms that come out of them, like a lipstick! Wish I was on top of it enough to have a blooming photo.

The tuilips are lovely catching the light so well.Mike think you need to get your head out of those dumpsters(skips) we gardeners supposed to grow flowers not make them out of scrap iron!

Think more likely to be leatherjackets in lawns.These turn into crane flies (daddy long legs) so if you see some dancing over your lawn soon you ll know what they were.

I'm very close to the east coast, hedgehogg, and it is just that wee bit different from the west. Are you close to, or near, the coast? I always think that ericaceous-loving plants such as rhododendron and erica look so much healthier and at home, in the west. Look at what others around you are growing well, and try to find out what grows in some of the Open gardens over there. Also, do a soil pH test to find out a bit more about it and which plants you can grow best. Sorry, can't be more helpful with specific plants at the mo. Good luck with the search!

If it is producing a seedhead it is ready to use... are the stalks nice and firm and crisp? pull them away from the base...wash them...and head for the kitchen!!lol.Don't forget about the leaves though. just put them in the trash.

I just googled that...aparently it's to stop algae growth in rainbarrel.

oh dear! slugs... sorry to hear that David. Copper sheeting around the margins of the bed...slugs hate crossing copper.

And, Lori, I've had to do with the Lobelia "Ruby Slippers" as i had with the Rudbeckia "Green Wizard" - dig up and re-plant in pots. All were reduced to skeletons by slugs - but they have recovered their foliage now. Have just read some comments re Delphs and slugs, too.

Sorry Barrier... they will never heal, per se. you can use sharp shears to cut away the dead spots. but personally I'd just leave them til the plant sheds the leaf itself.

I know, Muddy boots (but that was c.7 yrs ago). The birds, luckily, did not desert. I managed to content myself with setting up the VCR on a tripod and just let it record a whole tape, then sit and watch it for hours to see the birds come and go. I raised 5 generations of Tits in one home-made box - and they sure devoured loads of greenfly and other garden pests.Now, I remember making and locating that box in February, and it was being investigated almost immediately. I have a box in my current garden - also set up in Feb. - and it is definitely occupied. Looking forward to hearing how you get on.

As are those of perennial Lobelia, come to think of it.

Lori's medicinal run-down on dandelions is very interesting, indeed. As kids, we knew this plant by the name "Pee the Bed". We were scared to even touch the plants in case we did just that, lol!

I couldn't wait to get back and say that my above comment was jut a bit of "bare" faced "cheek".I hope you realised this. It isn't that tropical here, lol!

Just curious, what do you put around your bushes to make them look so neat and clean?

Thank you. I guess I will find out soon enough. The first of my 7 Rhodies has bloomed and it's scarlet red. I can't wait to see what the others are.