Joebell's Outbox

thanks jacque,i am really pleased with the allotment .you should be able to see it on tyne tees television if you go on line on the 6th of august between 6 and 6 30 pm

thanks everyone, yes celandine they are

thanks irish, it will be featured on tyne tees television news on august the 6th between 6 and 6 30 you should be able to watch it on line thanks blodyn ,

mixed trailing lobelias wohlibuli, you can make baskets with only these plants,

very nice mikec

yes its the same blodyn we bought afew unnamed cuttings at a car boot sale last year i will look that up ,thanks

very nice..love the colours

looks as if it would bite ,

my wife lucy tried growing them last year, nice plant, but no flowers,hope they do better this year

thanks mcmneil,

thanks for letting my wife and myself spend 2 hours in your beautiful garden god bless,

lovely,

beautiful both flower and photo,

like your garden chrispook love your photos ,it will soon look like a english cottage garden.

the colours of my home team ,sunderland, very nice,

my wife and i worked it till about two years ago when i became ill and my son and his pal took it on i still paid the rent but just before xmas i was told by a local resident that the patch as it is known was starting to look shabby we new our son was working seven days aweek but thought his pal would have him out no way, it was a tip so the wife and i decided to clean it up and make it easy to lookafter local residents are pleased with what we have done and often call in for a chat .

no i pay rent to the local housing group who run all the housing estates and allotment sites in the city of sunderland it used to a garage site with about 15 garages they are now two the others were vandelized smashed up burnt down stolen cars were dumped here and burned out every weekend, at this time i worked for the council training youngsters and people with special needs basic gardening and diy skills and the local councilers asked me if i could tidy the place up .so i set about cleaning it up,withten workers in 1989 we filled12 skips of rubble dug up tarmac roadways and built a greenhouse brought in tons of top soil errected two pollytunnels two cabins a rollalong that was my office and grow thousands of plants and made garden furniture .i trained many youngsters over the years who now are grown men some work in our local parks but in 1996 the council moved me to work on a walled garden in doxford park gardens .the local residents were up in arms when they found it was closing so i asked if i could use it as a allotment ,they were only to pleased to keep the local residents happy,

just how little is that spider ?

i love hostas but so do slugs and snails

do you get troubled with slugs or snails?

beautiful picture,we have these lilys growing in pots at home seeing yours i can not wait for summer

thats all they are david i planted them out this morning with winter pansies

notice the posts are extra strong jacgue ?

no, but gets the sun all day

nice photos jacgue,i bet you never got your camera from the pound shop

thanks lori,i bought them for my granddaughter four years ago 10 for ten pound 4 died the first week and she buried them in the back garden the other six are thriving i can not find leaf lettuce in my garden books is it known under a other name ?

lovely photo lori

lovely photo

beautys i have allways loved horses when i was boy many moons ago i helped out in stables loved riding them to the blacksmiths to be shod your picture brings back happy memories

our favourite flower, we grow them in pots then plant them in the borders they blend in anywhere