Blogs on gardening with friends

HAPPY THIRD BIRTHDAY Grows On You. :o)

By Terratoonie, 23 Jan, 2010, 173 comments

Once upon a time, long ago... ....well, actually, on 31st January 2007.... Peter and Ajay set up Grows on You ...
...the Garden Community...

My Poor Parrot Bill & Bottle Brush Plants :/

By Jacque, 5 Jan, 2010, 25 comments

Dear Toto sent me 4 Bottle Brush & 2 Parrot Bill Plants Last Year

Iv cared 4 them & theyv grown lots but today i went 2 Fix my fallen...

Houseleek BABIES :o)

By Terratoonie, 11 Dec, 2009, 61 comments

A few weeks ago I mailed some of my little houseleeks to Dawnsaunt.
As a surprise for her, I included a poem inside the package.
Then this...

an early Christmas present

By Seaburngirl, 6 Dec, 2009, 31 comments

When I got home on Wednesday there was the dreaded card saying the postman had tried to deliver and failed. Well he would seeing how everyone...

Summer Annuals - :o)

By Hywel, 6 Dec, 2009, 40 comments

I like to grow annuals. The old ones die off and they regrow from scratch every year.:o)
I didn't grow as many this year as I usually do. It...

Thank You

By Louise1, 5 Dec, 2009, 22 comments

Yesterday i received a wonderful package full of various seeds from a GoY member in Spain.
I remember talking to this member via PMs, but i'm...

Conker's GARDEN CENTRE outing

By Terratoonie, 26 Nov, 2009, 201 comments

Hello...... my name is Conker.........
I am a Shetland Sheepdog............5 years old...
Months ago, back in April, I became very ill with lymphoma...

Romneya's Garden!

By Madperth, 22 Sep, 2009, 57 comments

As a much-belated follow-up (Sorry!!) to the blog about the Dundee Food & Flower Show, here is the promised visit to the wonderful Romneya's...

Flowers, Food and Fellow "GOYers"

By David, 6 Sep, 2009, 51 comments

Yesterday (Sunday), Madperth (aka Marie) and I visited the Dundee Flower and Food Festival 2009. I've always missed this event in the past, so...

De Trop? No!!

By Spritzhenry, 27 Aug, 2009, 55 comments

What on earth am I on about now?? Just trying to be clever, that's all! A little French to test you out to start with...
The 'Trop' is actually...

Second opinions DO help!

By Spritzhenry, 22 Aug, 2009, 49 comments

I had some plants for Louise, so we arranged to meet this morning at the Garden Centre half-way between our homes. Unfortunately, the traffic...

MY BRILLIANT DAY!

By Madperth, 20 Aug, 2009, 87 comments

Today has been a really really good day for me, and one in which I have a LOT to be thankful for!Even if it DID rain!!
David had arranged to...

An opportunity to see Noseypotter's leopard and elephant. Blog # 22.

By Terratoonie, 7 Aug, 2009, 55 comments

On television this evening there was footage of a garden which will be open on August 9th, 2009 in Northwold, Norfolk. This is a village situated...

day out with Hibrazilmac

By Seaburngirl, 3 Aug, 2009, 15 comments

I picked Hibrazilmac at 8.30 and after a pleasant drive we arrived at Reighton nurseries at 9.30.We must have walked for miles, up and down the...

A trip to an NGS garden at Kensington Road Bristol

By Arlene, 26 Jul, 2009, 9 comments

Today we went along to Bristol for Grenville and Alan's open day.A 90 mile drive from Swansea turned much better as the drizzle cleared for our...

A trip to Spritzhenry's open day.

By Arlene, 15 Jun, 2009, 25 comments

The day dawned fine which was not forecast,a good sign! and the trip along and over the Severn Bridge quicker than anticipated, got us to Shurton...

In an English Country Garden.

By David, 14 Jun, 2009, 43 comments

The perfect one, too!

Thursday afternoon saw me driving along narrow, hedge-lined roads in West Somerset, with yellow signs guiding, even teasing...

Spritzhenrys Open Garden

By Louise1, 12 Jun, 2009, 28 comments

Yesterday afternoon i was lucky enough to get to Spritzhenrys beautiful garden,the sun shone and it was the most entrancing place i'd been to...

My afternoon at Spritzhenry's garden

By Jangue, 4 Jun, 2009, 23 comments

What a lovely afternoon I have had!
We (my dad and I) arrived around 2.30 after getting slightly lost (AA routemap's fault-not mine!)
What can...

* A Trip Down Memory Lane *

By Amy, 7 May, 2009, 14 comments

My Husband use to live in Bury St. Edmonds so every so often we go back for a nostalgic trip down memory lane ..The Abbey Gardens are a must...

More Adventures Of Pollyannaever!

By Pollyannaever, 23 Dec, 2008, 20 comments

Well here we go on the Ferry to Port Townsend where we will meet CJ (Catfinch) and have a nice couple of days at a B&B there.
Wow Sunshiney...

Was my holiday spent looking for people

By Amy, 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...

A trip to Kensington Roof Gardens, and a surprise!

By Peter, 7 Aug, 2008, 14 comments

So my blog is a bit late, but Monday was my first meet up with someone from Grows on You!! It's been great to see other members meeting up in...

Mike C's Blog ( 14 ) Thinking out loud...

By Mikec, 29 Jul, 2008, 26 comments

Earlier this evening while going through new photos here on GOY I got to thinking that looking at the photos has become one of my favorite things...

MISSION DE-BUG!

By Spritzhenry, 30 Jun, 2008, 11 comments

The mission for the Somerset Mafia was to find and destroy the bug in the Garden at 28 Kensington Road! So 'M' and Spritz bravely set off on...

It all started when Grenville and Alan came to visit!

By Spritzhenry, 26 Jun, 2008, 10 comments

When Grenville and Alan were looking round my garden, Grenville noticed my Campanula glomerata plants. There are rather a lot of them-they do...

Plant Swap

By Sid, 26 Jun, 2008, 12 comments

Hi everyone. This is a blog for the regulars and also for our esteemed leader, Ajay.
I sometimes have a look at the plant swap page under...

friends and life thats worth living

By Ilovelillies, 19 Jun, 2008, 13 comments

After reading the james bond blog, I felt the need to agree with all the comments made by fellow gardening friends.Since joining this site, I...

A Big Thank You

By Jacque, 26 Mar, 2008, 8 comments

Been a member of GOY since Feb08 now & iv made some great friends& had Fab advice&help:) Just want 2 make sure YOU ALL KNOW HOW GRATEFUL...

Gardening with Friends (2)

By David, 24 Feb, 2008, 3 comments

A couple of weeks ago, Weemamabell wrote to me, offering her surplus seeds to sell off cheaply on our plant stall at our forthcoming school Spring...

The Meeting of the Clans !!

By Weemamabell, 23 Feb, 2008, 22 comments

Well I met David and his 2 lively children this afternoon , its a shame the weather was so cold and windy , didnt get out into the garden ,...

"Gardening with Friends"

By David, 9 Feb, 2008, 6 comments

Today was "historic" for us as we actually met up with a fellow GOY member-Patrick-in the garden of his sister-in-law, Helen (incidentally, the...