Gardening blog archive

Eucalyptus

I am sitting in my garden room listening to the wind howling round this monster of...

30 Nov, 2007
Dibber

A Garden from (almost) scatch

As I told you in my intro. we inherited a Leylandi hedge when we moved into our...

30 Nov, 2007
Johnoz

Making compost!

I have been reading through the comments that were left to my previous two blogs....

30 Nov, 2007
Marksbegonias

Raised Veggie Plot continued saga.....

Finally did a bit in the garden this week, hooray. I cleared the rest of the garden...

30 Nov, 2007
Carolyn

Just for fun.........

I stumbled across this today & thought it might amuse someone, I've just wasted...

28 Nov, 2007
Karenking

compost?

In relation to my recent blog with reference to compost. My council take away garden...

27 Nov, 2007
Marksbegonias

compost rubbish!

Now that the council have started to collect the wheelie bin every other week they...

25 Nov, 2007
Marksbegonias

Grow Your Own

I missed Grow Your Own when it came to the cinema earlier this year but I watched...

25 Nov, 2007
Ajay

Bumbling Around.

Today Nov 24th I went to our local independent supermarket, they had winter pansies...

24 Nov, 2007
Tussiemussie

Don't Believe Everything You Read

The autumn issue of the Hllier Gardening Club magazine arrived last month but I only...

23 Nov, 2007
Andrewr

water logged garden

hi my garden at the moment is water logged at the end of the garden as it slopes...

22 Nov, 2007
Alisonbutler

A busy day at Standen

Phew! Quite a good workout today at Standen. We planted lots of bare-root native...

22 Nov, 2007
Volunteer

Caterpillar damage

Thanks to Spritzhenry answering my question a while, I found that caterpillars have...

22 Nov, 2007
Peter

Once upon a time, in my garden... by Reg

A little story from Reg's Fairy Garden site. http://www.reg-fairygarden.co.uk/ Once...

22 Nov, 2007
Reg

The Case of the Disappearing Apples

Well there's been a glut of apples everywhere this year. First we had a hot April...

20 Nov, 2007
Andrewr

Andrea's gardening

Hi, I'm new to this site and also new to the 'blog'. This will be my first time........... Well,...

20 Nov, 2007
Andrearichter

Raised vegetable Plot

Well not logged in in a while, gosh some people have been busy it seems. It seems...

19 Nov, 2007
Carolyn

Temptation

I saw an article in a Gardening Magazine last week about a shrub new to me, that...

18 Nov, 2007
Spritzhenry

Rainy Sunday

It's a cold rainy Sunday, so decided to have a lazy day. I am following Spritzhenry's...

18 Nov, 2007
Holly

Lovely day - with thermals!

Well, it was a beautiful sunny morning, but a hard frost overnight. Glad I'd saved...

15 Nov, 2007
Spritzhenry

The last of the maintenance

Hello all, Our network providers are carrying out what we have been told is the last...

15 Nov, 2007
Ajay

Its Cold !

Boy oh Boy !!!, its cold here , even my bubblewrapped Greenhouse hasn't manage to...

15 Nov, 2007
Weemamabell

well i never

after much soul searching (and begging to the holder of the purse strings) thought...

13 Nov, 2007
Longlad

Autumn clean up.

Hi everyone, I have spent my morning clearing up the fallen leaves in my garden,...

11 Nov, 2007
Holly

Your Stories

It's great to see how much 'Grows On You' has developed over time and the site is...

8 Nov, 2007
Gemma

Grows on You fans

Hi all, Facebook announced a new feature called Pages yesterday so I had a look....

8 Nov, 2007
Ajay

Is my plant POISONOUS ?

Useful site to chech if a plant is poisonous to animals, people. here is the link. http://www.cbif.gc.ca/pls/pp/ppack.list?p_sci=comm&p_type=all&p_x=px

7 Nov, 2007
Tussiemussie

Maintenance Friday Nov 9

Hi Everyone, We've heard that our server provider is going to be fiddling around...

7 Nov, 2007
Ajay

Reg's Garden in Jersey UK

An easy way to get around my garden. Please take a look at these pictures which I...

7 Nov, 2007
Reg

does anyone know if I can get viable seed off these ?

Hello, i've grown from seed this year Leonotis 'Staircase' from T&M after seeing...

6 Nov, 2007
Peterowley

a bit about me

Hi all I'm a mum of 2 (age 7 and 1) and live in Wales. I had an allotment for a couple...

6 Nov, 2007
Peaspleasel..

Raised Vegetable Plot

Having been inspired by the on line square foot garden on this site I am trying to...

5 Nov, 2007
Carolyn

Can anyone identify this plant?

Hi, I saw a plant like this growing wild in Minorca last year, and collected a...

5 Nov, 2007
Blyco

Plants on wheels

It's that time of year when I'm moving (and removing) shrubs and tough plants to...

4 Nov, 2007
Andrewr

shady side of the garden

on my back garden i have a shady side.Which I am very fed up with. i can grow foxgloves,periwinkle,snapdragon,snowdrops,nemophila,astratia(slug...

3 Nov, 2007
Marieballs

Common names

Hello all, We have introduced common name lookup for when you add your photos and...

3 Nov, 2007
Ajay

Growing plants from cuttings.

This year, I decided to have a go at taking cuttings from various plants in my garden....

2 Nov, 2007
Spritzhenry

Website downtime

Hi everyone, we're really sorry if you've had problems using the website this morning,...

1 Nov, 2007
Peter