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cherry tree
Posted on 30 Sep, 2008 4 comments
is there any way i can save the cherry tree, is there any thing i can do please ,sonny.
Gardening advice best and worst?
Posted on 30 Sep, 2008 37 comments
Living in a village many people often stop to comment when gardening.Alan Titchmarsh once said put 2 gardeners together and you could be waiting...
Lazy day
Posted on 30 Sep, 2008 5 comments
Tuesday 30 Sept. 2008
On Sunday I did a cycle ride (I ride a trike as my balance on two wheels is not so good!) all uphill to see a friend and...
Love/Hate Relationships
Posted on 30 Sep, 2008 18 comments
Having spent several hours extracting schizostylis from a corner of the garden, I thought about other plants that I like but which have designs...
Was my holiday spent looking for people
Posted on 30 Sep, 2008 25 comments
who are members of GOY ! the answer is YES .While visiting relatives in Hereford walking over Victoria bridge and into the Castle green gardens...
Blue Eyed Grass
Posted on 29 Sep, 2008 1 comment
Hello Everyone. I'm looking for Blue Eyed Grass (Sysrinchium var.) and can't seem to find out where to buy it. Can anyone help me? Thanks.
Jacqueline...
Fuchsia nursery in Wales
Posted on 29 Sep, 2008 5 comments
http://www.exoticfuchsias.co.uk/html/fuchsias_brynawel_index.html
I have had good quality mail order fuchsias from here.
Favourtie Fuchsias
Posted on 29 Sep, 2008 6 comments
I started wiith many from doubles to semis and now tend to like singles .
Fuchsia grown not in a pot
Posted on 29 Sep, 2008 1 comment
Something different .Could be anything unsual.
Another winter project .
Standard Fuchsia
Posted on 29 Sep, 2008 4 comments
Best with a tip cuttign sthat has 3 leaves but can be doen with two.
Pot up with a stake and let grow .
Shall update at next stage letter.
Now...
Multi Pot Fuchsia
Posted on 29 Sep, 2008 2 comments
Going to start first a little about multi potting.
First take a 3 -4" pot , and take tip cuttigns withtwo leaves and start incentre.
Then around...
the last sunny weekend?
Posted on 28 Sep, 2008 3 comments
Hello everyone!We've had such great weather for over a week but I think it may be over soon-the forecast tonight is for 'unsettled' this week...
Busy Sunday afternoon in the Sun in September.
Posted on 28 Sep, 2008 9 comments
Back from the garden centre with my bargin Box for £16.00.
I didn't go to buy a box but I happened to walk past it and I thought I can do something...
Bonsia Fuchsia
Posted on 28 Sep, 2008 8 comments
Just been down sizing Carmel Blue in to bonsia dish.
Already got Janettes cutting she sent in a bonsia dish.
Anjoy else got fuchsias as bonsia.
Autumn walk
Posted on 28 Sep, 2008 0 comments
http://www.nts.org.uk/Events/Property/1/
This is where I am heading off today.
Getting There - Slowly
Posted on 28 Sep, 2008 2 comments
Day 9
A Busy And Warm Day,
The Fish Have There New home And Seem To Be Happy,My Mums Tree Is Now Free From That Dreadful Ivy Which Sticks Like...
(3) Wisteria - Ignorance is bliss
Posted on 27 Sep, 2008 13 comments
I spent last year frustrated with my Wisteria, it had flowered beautifully but, the stem had never been trained properly and it was twisted...
Insects and other things.
Posted on 27 Sep, 2008 4 comments
I don't know what happened, maybe the hurricane stirred up eggs and larvae, because after the storm I've seen some of the biggest flying insects...
The plants sheltered in place.
Posted on 27 Sep, 2008 10 comments
And happily, they all survived the hurricane! We were told late Thursday that everything that was on the balconies had to be moved and stored...
Looking for Clay Pots
Posted on 27 Sep, 2008 9 comments
5 and 6" pots and most places just have plastic.
I will get back to the Garden
Posted on 27 Sep, 2008 2 comments
Haven't written much in my blog because I haven't been doing much in the garden, I'm afraid. Cutting grass and tidying up, mostly, while resolving...
Season of mists....
Posted on 27 Sep, 2008 3 comments
Weather forecast is for a beautiful day but woke up at 8.30 to see the garden enveloped in a thick mist. Rather beautiful really, all the flowers...
tree stumps
Posted on 27 Sep, 2008 2 comments
Hi guys, sorry not been on site but the computer has been playing up. Took a long time to find the cause but would appear to have been that...
Finishing Touches
Posted on 27 Sep, 2008 3 comments
Day 7 & 8
Well The End Is Near, The Finishing Touches Will Be Applied Today As The Hardcore & Cutting Of The Slabs Took A Bit Of Time.
The...
Busy week-end
Posted on 27 Sep, 2008 3 comments
I work tomorrow morning and then have a date with Flash for some round-pen work and some riding. Sunday I have 500 motorcyclists, mostly Harley's...
Tipping Container Stand
Posted on 27 Sep, 2008 12 comments
I just wanted to share the plans for a TIPPING CONTAINER STAND that I found on another website courtesy of Margie Reeves. In case any one wants...
About me.
Posted on 26 Sep, 2008 3 comments
I live in Gillingham, Kent.Married happily. age-lets just say knocking on lolWe have an 18 ft wide garden x 180 ft longhave about 15 clematis,...
Snails
Posted on 26 Sep, 2008 3 comments
About 5 years ago, i went out in the garden about 1am, middle of the night for some lol, i did this with my dog every night come rain or wind-every...
we're in!!
Posted on 26 Sep, 2008 4 comments
forgive me for being so quiet the last few weeks, as we we're moving house (and garden!!) .We'll we had a 7.5 tonne lorry for the house stuff...
Hanging Baskets
Posted on 26 Sep, 2008 4 comments
My next basket I will be planting is alpine plants.
Undecided which on which plant sthere are so many.
cerry tree
Posted on 26 Sep, 2008 4 comments
my cherry tree, seem,s like it has some type of disease, it as sap coming in 3 place,s as far as i can see. wonder if anybody could tell me...
(2) Tired but happy
Posted on 26 Sep, 2008 7 comments
I had looked at the weather forecast on Wednesday and thought that today (Friday) might be a good day to make my 1st visit to RHS Wisley.What...
Sunshine and pruning
Posted on 26 Sep, 2008 0 comments
Well, the "Indian Summer" is here (at least for the next few days) and the sun is wonderfully warm.
I spent today in a very satisfactory way-firstly...
end of season disappointment
Posted on 26 Sep, 2008 9 comments
What was your disappointment this year. Vegetables? Flowers? Lawn?Mine was sweet peas. This depressing sight is the remains of a rather classy...
Meconopsis
Posted on 26 Sep, 2008 0 comments
I have just received my blue poppies, can anyone tell me how to look after them, I want to plant them in a pot, can i use any soil ??? do they...
Fruit and veg
Posted on 26 Sep, 2008 16 comments
I was telling my neighbour, Napoleons' mum, the other day that tomatoes are really fruits and not vegetables-and then we got sidetracked into...
Veggie raised bed
Posted on 26 Sep, 2008 3 comments
I so enjoying still early but growing veggies be better orgainsied next yr.
Getting to expensive and much tastier.
Before and after makeover
Posted on 26 Sep, 2008 2 comments
Through the next months will be talking about my makeover in back garden I am working on.
caterpillar problems and earwigs
Posted on 26 Sep, 2008 0 comments
Hello anyone, advice needed. I moved to a very large gardenm my passion is roses and clematis. Since moving here I have encountered problems...
Container planting
Posted on 26 Sep, 2008 5 comments
As many of you know I so enjoy colour comlimenting and container and hanging baskets.
I have been so busy with my garden job, but as winter...
Plants have gone crazy
Posted on 26 Sep, 2008 3 comments
Just had a look at my petunias thought would need to discard then plant up for Autumn but plants are smiling saying we still have some growing...
As the Wind Wheel Turns
Posted on 25 Sep, 2008 3 comments
No gardening today, but I will water my new maple trees when I get home from work at my shop. It is not raining enough to do any good...besides...
A green (and wet) garden
Posted on 25 Sep, 2008 15 comments
It's been a while since I wrote about my garden, partly because of being busy (more on that later) and partly because my little strip of brown...
Poems
Posted on 25 Sep, 2008 4 comments
Full many a glorious morning have I seenFlatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye,Kissing with golden face the meadows green,Gilding pale...
Pet evacuees
Posted on 25 Sep, 2008 14 comments
One of the more touching aspects of this whole hurricane ordeal (after the human angle, of course) are what happens to the pets when they're...
In the storm by Mary Oliver
Posted on 24 Sep, 2008 3 comments
In the Storm
Some black duckswere shrugged upon the shore.It was snowing
hard, from the east,and the seawas in disorder.Then some sanderlings,
five...
Fall blew in
Posted on 24 Sep, 2008 2 comments
I wonder how long the wind will have to rattle and shake the trees before it is satisfide that the leaves will tumble down after they have turned...
Tulip Bulbs - the choice is endless!
Posted on 24 Sep, 2008 3 comments
Well, I was supposed to go and do a pruning/weeding session today but as the weather progreesively got damper and darker, I rearranged for friday....