Gardening blog archive

Gardening blogs from Oct 2009

Garden Centres Giving Wrong Advice.

With a couple of shrubs on my list i went to my nearest garden centre today. It's...

Posted on 31 Oct, 2009 132 comments | Read on »

What Good Witches REALLY do at Samhain!!!

Well.....first of all, they get up at 4.30 in the morning to post their Hallowe'en...

Posted on 31 Oct, 2009 65 comments | Read on »

Hydroponic Hyacinth Update

As promised, a very quick update on the progress of the blue hyacinths grown in water...... I...

Posted on 31 Oct, 2009 25 comments | Read on »

Insects

This morning took a look at my fatsia japonica, and to say its the last day of October,...

Posted on 31 Oct, 2009 15 comments | Read on »

Houseplants - for Jacque (and for anyone else, if you're really, really bored..)

Well, here goes, houseplants as follows. Had to wreck the sitting room arrangements...

Posted on 31 Oct, 2009 19 comments | Read on »

Autumn gold at Kew

The Gardens have been a blaze of yellow,red and orange this past week and its been...

Posted on 31 Oct, 2009 20 comments | Read on »

Shouldn't You Be In Bed?

It’s the end of October and summer feels like a long time ago. But some of the...

Posted on 31 Oct, 2009 22 comments | Read on »

Samhain - Hallowe'en - The Festival of the Dead...

In the USA it's known as 'Trick or Treat', when youngsters use scare-tactics to get...

Posted on 31 Oct, 2009 41 comments | Read on »

seeds on the tree

no the tree does not flower at all, and no the seeds don't smash, matter of fact...

Posted on 30 Oct, 2009 4 comments | Read on »

My £1.25p Cyclamen

Went shopping this eveing & saw this Tiny Cyclamen sitting all by itself :( It...

Posted on 30 Oct, 2009 18 comments | Read on »

Bewar those of you north of Watford Gap - Daddy longlegs are on the move!

The first national spider survey says that british householders recorded 13,265 sightings...

Posted on 30 Oct, 2009 10 comments | Read on »

Mucking about!

Guess how I spent my afternoon! The title should give you a clue.... In this rural...

Posted on 30 Oct, 2009 48 comments | Read on »

Garden visitors

I thought I would share with you one or two pics of visitors to our garden. First...

Posted on 30 Oct, 2009 11 comments | Read on »

Purple flowery things

When we went to Matlock a couple of Sundays ago we called into the local GC. We didn't...

Posted on 30 Oct, 2009 34 comments | Read on »

House plants annonymous For Jacquie

Havent many Houseplants but here they are! Im afraid I dont know the names of most...

Posted on 30 Oct, 2009 16 comments | Read on »

new project part 2

today the tree man came to chop down the trees 2 hours later and they are down, he`s...

Posted on 30 Oct, 2009 50 comments | Read on »

Growing with the Moon in November

Hi All as it will be November on Sunday thought you might like the info on what to...

Posted on 30 Oct, 2009 15 comments | Read on »

A lovely spring day ..for autumn.

Late October and the sun was shining birds singing what a lovely day says Jane ..get...

Posted on 29 Oct, 2009 69 comments | Read on »

A few damp days in lovely Devon

Visited my daughter in Devon last week. Lovely county. Gorgeous views. Many interesting...

Posted on 29 Oct, 2009 17 comments | Read on »

Autumn at Brodie

Yesterday Mrs MB announced that we were off for a walk, to me as well as the to the...

Posted on 29 Oct, 2009 30 comments | Read on »

hi everyone

i'm new here and trying to find out what i'm doing and where i'm doing it.i am wanting...

Posted on 29 Oct, 2009 13 comments | Read on »

First Impressions

If you watched the series ‘Open Gardens’ about owners trying to get their gardens...

Posted on 29 Oct, 2009 22 comments | Read on »

Ive been so excited!

There was a beautifull glow on my garden early this morning so i got my camera to...

Posted on 29 Oct, 2009 38 comments | Read on »

My Autumn Garden.........

Hello all, Not been about much lately, sorry about that, I have missed you all, but...

Posted on 29 Oct, 2009 36 comments | Read on »

Buckets As Plant Containers!!

I starteded 2 repot My Large Container Fuchsias yesterday as u can see they need...

Posted on 29 Oct, 2009 24 comments | Read on »

My First ever blog,here goes.

Just thought I would share these with you,now coming to the end of October and still...

Posted on 29 Oct, 2009 18 comments | Read on »

Major "munchies"!

After grilling some chicken quarters on the 'ol BBQ pit tonight, I made a few "bell-pepper...

Posted on 29 Oct, 2009 5 comments | Read on »

Rain!

We had some rain this week….about 5 inches or so in less than 2 days. It has left...

Posted on 29 Oct, 2009 16 comments | Read on »

Good Do-ers!

What's that? You may well ask! I'm sure you've read the phrase many, many times...

Posted on 28 Oct, 2009 36 comments | Read on »

I want a Bonfire On Guy Fawks Nite ???

Going to Strim My Long Grass/Wildflower Area 2morw if weather permits & id like...

Posted on 28 Oct, 2009 18 comments | Read on »

new project

hi guys im planning a new project at the back of the garden, im fed up with wasted...

Posted on 28 Oct, 2009 43 comments | Read on »

Spending Spree

I`ve had a really good day where my garden is concerned. Yesterday I was talking...

Posted on 28 Oct, 2009 8 comments | Read on »

Bracknell In Bloom 2009, 'Your Gardens' Awards.

Hi Everybody, This is my first ever blog. I have been urged to write it by a good...

Posted on 28 Oct, 2009 26 comments | Read on »

mad
Mad

Another attempt

Thank you Terratoonie for advising me on sending photos with blogs. I shall try...

Posted on 28 Oct, 2009 14 comments | Read on »

sunday lunch

my wife usually cooks during the week and i usually do lunch/dinner on a week-end.lamb...

Posted on 27 Oct, 2009 15 comments | Read on »

Frisky Erica carnea

Browsing the web just now, came across an article about Erica carnea, winter flowering...

Posted on 27 Oct, 2009 79 comments | Read on »

The new veggie garden

I've been promising you all for the last few weeks I would post this blog-finally...

Posted on 27 Oct, 2009 43 comments | Read on »

End of summer

Summer has come and gone, Autumn is here with many tasks waiting, even in a garden...

Posted on 27 Oct, 2009 6 comments | Read on »

My Top Ten Evergreens...

At this time of year, the evergreens really come into their own. For months they...

Posted on 27 Oct, 2009 63 comments | Read on »

Autumn in my garden

Salix Kilmarnock Marjorie Fair Burning Bush Viburnum Buckwoodii Liquidamber Cotoneaster...

Posted on 27 Oct, 2009 32 comments | Read on »

My greenhouse

If Id known how tough this little project was going to be I probably would not have...

Posted on 27 Oct, 2009 15 comments | Read on »

One Year Old Sunflowers !!!!

Back In September/October 2008 i planted some Sunflower Seeds into Pots & kept...

Posted on 27 Oct, 2009 33 comments | Read on »

GLADIOLI.........

I bought some mixed Gladioli bulbs in August in a sale.......i thought it was a bit...

Posted on 27 Oct, 2009 14 comments | Read on »

Thank you all and I'm hooked!

Gosh this site is so addictive! Having had the dreaded lurgy that has been going...

Posted on 27 Oct, 2009 9 comments | Read on »

WHAT EXACTLY is GoYpedia ?

Peter and Ajay recently created several new categories in GoYpedia and asked me to...

Posted on 26 Oct, 2009 62 comments | Read on »

Wildflowers in bloom during our spring downunder.

This is a snapshot of various wildflowers that will be blooming now out in the wild-mainly...

Posted on 26 Oct, 2009 43 comments | Read on »

Cornwall

A few more pictures from my trip to Cornwall. The other garden we visited was Trengwainton,...

Posted on 26 Oct, 2009 15 comments | Read on »

Cheap and long lasting vine trellis

Last growing season I planted a passion vine because as a child, my mom had one growing...

Posted on 25 Oct, 2009 8 comments | Read on »

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Bjs

Autumn followup

They always said the camera never lied well it does now, many will already know this...

Posted on 25 Oct, 2009 10 comments | Read on »

Awkward Orchids

One of the most commonly asked questions on GOY is about the care of Orchids-usually...

Posted on 25 Oct, 2009 86 comments | Read on »

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