Gardening blog archive

Nature

We provide shelter for birds and butterflies on the side of our shed. It makes it...

11 Jul, 2010
Casso

A Trip to Nana's Garden...

*Well, on Saturday we loaded up our car and set off to the boondox... that's 'somewhere...

11 Jul, 2010
Pip_c

A week on the Norfolk coast.

We just spent a blissful week at East Runton on the Norfolk coast. The weather was...

11 Jul, 2010
Homebird

Not gone away

I haven't:) (Sounding very Yoda like) Just not much been happening in the Yard....

11 Jul, 2010
Silvisherr

Ha! Got 'em!

After a lot of failed attempts to catch my garden lights in a good light ... so to...

10 Jul, 2010
Fluff

Red Squirrels - New kids on the block

Sorry, we've been away from GoY for a while-life's been chaotic in general &...

10 Jul, 2010
Thecottageg..

dry weather

The weather up here in northeast scotland has been very dry this last month what...

10 Jul, 2010
Speedy10

I bet you think you are a responsible gardener!

I thought i was too, until i learned about the huge number of really damaging plants...

10 Jul, 2010
Debbieweedl..

Pond, pub, river, in that order!

Hi folks, happy weekend to you all! Just wanted to share some new photos with you...

10 Jul, 2010
Lulu33

LOGGED ON

*For months I have noticed a piece of tree lying at the edge of the lane on the way...

10 Jul, 2010
Gee19

little dove

I have a little story, with a happy ending, a little collard dove flew into my conservatory,...

10 Jul, 2010
Patriciacha..

Hemerocallis -- day lilies

Before I get on to the subject of day lilies, I'll comment on a delightful village...

10 Jul, 2010
Kowhai

No Rain Again

I’ve been reminded that it’s time I wrote another blog, so here goes. We’ve had no...

10 Jul, 2010
Lady_bird

Honey fungus - Armillaria

http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/Profile.aspx?pid=180 Just heard that this 'honey...

10 Jul, 2010
Elke

Another 2-3 year delay on a bit of construction ...

I'm sipping a coffee this morning (actually my fourth) ... it's been a bit of a rubbish...

10 Jul, 2010
Mrv

Bound to rain now!

Lincoln authorities are going to fill City Square with sand for three weeks, so it...

10 Jul, 2010
Felinfan

Gnomes on holiday

Some dear friend of mine has kidnapped my little people, looks like they are having...

10 Jul, 2010
Mrsmelon

Not long left till the Gardening Comp :/

Morning all. Its been a while since I visited you all so I thought a blog would be...

10 Jul, 2010
Lpooldarlin

Pots

What would we do without pots, urns and all the many other sometimes strange containers...

10 Jul, 2010
Heron

Large leaves!

I was inspecting my backyard after a few days of rainfall and noticed some rather...

10 Jul, 2010
N2organics

the 'break your neck bed'..............

Persuaded tony that we needed to spend money on 'shrubbery' for the break you neck...

9 Jul, 2010
Sandygirl

frogs!

Have you every gone out of your way to asked a question. And before you've finished...

9 Jul, 2010
Sandygirl

A FIREY, FIREY SKY.

*These picture were taken on Wednesday evening, it had been a wet miserable day and...

9 Jul, 2010
Pansypotter

My Roses

I have never been keen on plants which grab you as you walk by. I never did take...

9 Jul, 2010
Scotsgran

July in the Garden

Another month gone by and becoming desperate for some rain on all my Rhodos and camelias,they...

9 Jul, 2010
Bjs

Diamonds Aren't Forever

Early yesterday for a short while we actually had some rain, well.....nothing to...

9 Jul, 2010
Lily2

Plants At Inverewe

You may remember I raved about the garden at Inverewe in my recent blog, ‘Gardens...

9 Jul, 2010
Andrewr

Stage 3 or The Saga of the Pond

I expected Stage 3 of my garden redesign to take ages, because of all the digging,...

9 Jul, 2010
Mandym

my mini garden

I have been extremely busy, in other people gardens, unfortunately I dont have one...

9 Jul, 2010
Dublinsmum

a big thank you

to all of you for your lovely comments iplated some geraniums two weeks ago which...

8 Jul, 2010
Cindycarol

garden so far

still pulling up flagstones and weeding galore penny giveing a hand and another...

8 Jul, 2010
Ladybug47

Hose Pipe ban boo hoo!

Its rare to have a hose pipe ban in the Northwest, but as of tomorrow that is what...

8 Jul, 2010
Kfunsters

An Optical illusion - I hope

My daughter has been down from Scotland for a week (the heat shocked her!) and I...

8 Jul, 2010
Mad

Taking cuttings

The thing I love about gardening is creating a full blown plant from a tiny cutting....

8 Jul, 2010
Casso

Lawn

The lawn in my front garden is beautifully green all year, never needs cutting and...

8 Jul, 2010
Casso

Wheelbarrow

My next door neighbour is going to have her garden redone by a landscape gardener...

8 Jul, 2010
Hollyeves

My garden pre holiday

As I am going to be away for a week starting tomorrow, I thought I would take a few...

8 Jul, 2010
Cinderella

Our latest batch of baby swallows

This is always one of the happiest days of the year in our garden. Mum chooses a...

8 Jul, 2010
Scotsgran

When is enough enough? : )

Am I the only one who never seems to stop buying plants? So many times this year...

7 Jul, 2010
Lauram

My lovely Hoya

The first time I saw her, I was hooked; It was love at first sight....but she belonged...

7 Jul, 2010
Macpat

Miniature Sunflower

I asked about a miniature sunflower I had that was wilting, and was told that watering...

7 Jul, 2010
Alextb

Time out

Hi Michaela, doing ok thanks, been outside again today , tidying up , weeding etc....

7 Jul, 2010
Samd45

Dust..

Yet again i was lured out into the garden today ,instead of doing the dusting , hoovering,...

7 Jul, 2010
Samd45

GROMIT'S GRAVEL GARDENS

Hydrangea serrata "Blue Bird" ~ flowering happily, below our pergola, in this...

7 Jul, 2010
Terratoonie

At last!! The garden is growing..

I dont know about anyone else's garden but mine seems to be growing slower than usual,...

7 Jul, 2010
Youngdaisydee

OUCH!

It is very hot but I thought at long last I should get some grass cutting done. ...

7 Jul, 2010
Bertiefox

Hardy Geraniums for new Rose Border

Been and bought some more Hardy Geraniums for the new rose border, need to see more...

7 Jul, 2010
Oliveoil

NEW GARDEN MAKEOVER

Just a few pics of my makeover, still lots to do ,planting, finishing off etc...oh...

7 Jul, 2010
Bornagain

Bits and pieces.

I expect that this will be an occasional thing, I'm short of brain power (the will...

7 Jul, 2010
Oldsparky

Hits and Misses - part 1 Evening primroses

When we first came into the house there were a number of dead triffids all over the...

7 Jul, 2010
Sussexsarah