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Eucomis: I blame the children.

Don’t get me wrong I love both my girls, but they do exert influences in what grows...

16 comments

seaburngirl

27 Aug, 2021
Seaburngirl

Agapanthus in the best light.A short blog.

A few of us will be dividing the Agapanthus when the flowers have died down,especially...

8 comments

meadowland

26 Aug, 2021
Meadowland

Roses flowering today

This is 'Rhapsody in Blue' showing itself for the third time this year! The little...

29 comments

shirley_tulip

25 Aug, 2021
Shirley_tulip

Banksy again

A couple more photos for you , one is taken above a bus stop , I'm afraid the perspex...

8 comments

amy2

24 Aug, 2021
Amy2

Water, water, water!

I have not known a season like this. It has been so dry in the west of Scotland where...

8 comments

somhairle

24 Aug, 2021
Somhairle

What was I thinking?

Story of my tomato production in 2021. Sometime in March I put what I thought was...

16 comments

klahanie_

23 Aug, 2021
Klahanie_

Sleepy fox on next door’s lawn of weeds.

Captured this wily fox in a sleepy state recently. Having a siesta for a short time...

27 comments

kate123

23 Aug, 2021
Kate123

The season is getting shorter

Growing vegetables in Scotland will soon be drawing to an end. The runner beans,...

10 comments

linda235

22 Aug, 2021
Linda235

The plant thugs of our garden.

Every year, at this time, our garden gets taken over by certain plants! In the spring...

16 comments

wildrose

22 Aug, 2021
Wildrose

When I grow up

I want to be as big as you! This Lavender 'Hidcote' was planted in June 2010 and...

22 comments

shirley_tulip

20 Aug, 2021
Shirley_tulip

A handful of terrible photos on the 19th August!

I was taking photos of some bonsai for our granddaughters in Melbourne, Australia,...

13 comments

sheilabub

19 Aug, 2021
Sheilabub

Bonsai for Chiara and Francesca

Just to show you it takes many years for these little dwarf trees to grow! The copper...

13 comments

sheilabub

19 Aug, 2021
Sheilabub

Banksy is in our area

Banksy has been busy , he coursed great excitement when he left an art work at the...

18 comments

amy2

19 Aug, 2021
Amy2

Mid August in East Yorkshire

Like some of you my garden is starting to look 'backend-ish' [a phrase I'd never...

16 comments

seaburngirl

17 Aug, 2021
Seaburngirl

Amaurosis fugax

No, it’s not the name of one of the pulled up weeds that you partly see piled high...

3 comments

loosestrife2

15 Aug, 2021
Loosestrife2

Taking Home

Here are a few of the Daylily crosses I made and planted out on the allotment 3 years...

4 comments

siris

13 Aug, 2021
Siris

Bottom of the garden

A single track road passes the bottom of my garden, and there's an opening from the...

13 comments

hywel

10 Aug, 2021
Hywel

Phlox in August

I inherited this phlox and it is very pretty at this time of the year. I am posting...

11 comments

klahanie_

10 Aug, 2021
Klahanie_

Front garden!

I thought it was about time I showed you the front garden! I have never really been...

14 comments

rose1949

9 Aug, 2021
Rose1949

Some more pictures of the flower borders.

As some of the flowers seem to be finishing early because of being battered by the...

9 comments

rose1949

9 Aug, 2021
Rose1949

Butterflies of Chalkland/grassland in East Yorkshire

In East Yorkshire, where I live, is a range of environments that have specific flora...

17 comments

seaburngirl

7 Aug, 2021
Seaburngirl

lion manure

DO NOT USE,I got this off amazon it does not work and seems to have attracted cats...

4 comments

ladybug47

3 Aug, 2021
Ladybug47

Bye Bye Conifers.....

At long last they are no more, poor trees did me proud for a long time but they were...

39 comments

lincslass

2 Aug, 2021
Lincslass

Some photos taken this afternoon.

A very mild,humid day.....the Dahlias thankfully, aren't wilting ..not so sure I...

11 comments

meadowland

2 Aug, 2021
Meadowland

My front garden this summer ...

Early this year I hadn't been able to tend my front garden and it had got into such...

19 comments

hywel

2 Aug, 2021
Hywel

Chorley Flower Show.

After so many event have had to be cancelled over the past 18/19 months it was so...

8 comments

waddy

1 Aug, 2021
Waddy


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