Gardening blog archive

Lady (Nature) in Red

For me autumn means many nice memories and-peaceful farewell. Because, as you know...

23 Sep, 2012
Katarina

Last of Summer 2012

The end of the summer is a bittersweet turning point. We look forward to the gold...

22 Sep, 2012
Wells

Private Gardens Of Cornwall - Part 3

Pine Lodge Gardens receives a lot of publicity so I was looking forward to seeing...

22 Sep, 2012
Andrewr

Gymnocalycium & Garden

Maybe hywel can give some more direction on this one, there seems to be a few similar...

22 Sep, 2012
Little_things

Viktoria Regia - the Flower Festival.

Each year in September there is held a flower decoration festival in Piestany. As...

22 Sep, 2012
Katarina

Canal walk in September 2012

This is the view round the nearby canal on our early morning walk.

22 Sep, 2012
Moragann

Arion Fountain - for Holly and her sister :)

In the historical centre of the town Olomouc, there are 7 fountains. Each of them...

22 Sep, 2012
Katarina

WHAT A NOVEL IDEA, MIGHT IT CATCH ON?

After a very peculiar growing season, many of the plants look very sorry for themselves,...

21 Sep, 2012
Dottydaisy2

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED part two,

after resiting the filter and completing the alteration to right hand side of the...

21 Sep, 2012
Stroller

Short and Sweet look around my little garden.

Well it's been a lovely day here in Wales been out planting up a few pots of bulbs...

21 Sep, 2012
Kidsgran

Westhaven today

Such a lovely day here today....photos from the end of my walk this morning! Westhaven...

21 Sep, 2012
Karensusan63

Isle of Harris and Lewis

Earlier this year our friend, Stickitoffee, went over the sea to Harris and posted...

21 Sep, 2012
Bulbaholic

Scilly in September.

We had a really enjoyable short break on the Isles of Scilly recently and eventhough...

20 Sep, 2012
Wildrose

My deed today

As i did my rumba down to my greenhouse with my new camera in one hand and my glass...

20 Sep, 2012
230338

Fife Flower Show -Part 3 - Cut flowers

The exhibitors at this years show gave their flowers plenty of TLC to put on this...

20 Sep, 2012
Scotsgran

MY FIRST ORCHID

A work colleague asked me to bin an almost dead, wrinkled orchid for him. I asked...

20 Sep, 2012
Sheilar

More colour this month.

Just a few more flowers that are still going for it at the moment. Some nice annual...

20 Sep, 2012
Surreylad

Penstemon

I seem to hear that penstemons are not very long lived. I have had this one ~ whose...

20 Sep, 2012
Lizziebee

Alpine Campanulas

Some photos of my small collection of alpine Campanulas, Campanula nitida 6.6.12 Edraianthus...

20 Sep, 2012
Pcw

Last years Fuschia cuttings

Last year I took quite a few cuttings from my Fuschias, they all took but there were...

19 Sep, 2012
Neellan

Roses for Julie and a question:)))

Julie popped out shopping today so i picked some roses for her and popped them in...

19 Sep, 2012
Mark61

Better late than never!

This year was my first attempt at growing Roses. I planted three bare root 'Gertrude...

19 Sep, 2012
Annelise

Private Gardens of Cornwall - Part 2

The next stop on the trip was at Poppy Cottage. Originally the garden consisted of...

19 Sep, 2012
Andrewr

HOLIDAY IN SHROPSHIRE/CHESHIRE - Part 1

We had a pretty good week last week, managed to avoid the showers. Sunday was dry...

19 Sep, 2012
Tetrarch

Candytuff - who would have thought it?

A plant which surprised me this year was Candytuff, a self-seeder from the previous...

18 Sep, 2012
Phs

Harrogate Autumn Show

I had the pleasure to visit Harrogate Autumn show on Saturday (15-9-12) and needless...

18 Sep, 2012
Teegee

Autumn Garden

I have been out, in the garden all day , cutting back and moving plants before the...

18 Sep, 2012
Pansypotter

Account of my 2012 Allotment Failings, Misjudgements and Lessons Learned

OK I have to get a few things into print to ram some lessons learned into my head...

18 Sep, 2012
Sunnyhill

HONFLEUR garden

An old friend who lives in France had a bad car accident last December 2011. She...

18 Sep, 2012
Roseberry

Garage border makeover

This is part of my garden that you have never seen before mainly because it had become...

18 Sep, 2012
Annella

Karen’s gifts

Karensuan63 did a blog on how she divided her Heuchera Blackberry Jam and got a lot...

18 Sep, 2012
Franl155

Finished the alterations to my front garden

I got 36 free Lavenders this spring and have grown them on, mine were over 7 years...

18 Sep, 2012
Drc726

Just for watching - Cat and dolphin

No comment :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rynvewVe21Y

18 Sep, 2012
Katarina

Patches of colour

Lampranthus and Delosperma are creating patches of colour all over the garden now.. Even...

18 Sep, 2012
Little_things

Flowering in September

This is just a little blog of what is flowering/still flowering midway through September....

17 Sep, 2012
Scottish

Sand, Sea, Flowers and Cacti for Hywel

A few pics from my holiday:)

17 Sep, 2012
Nana_d

The Summer Allotments (Plot 12A)

The Summer Allotments (Plot 12A) June/July/August 2012 Overview of plot, beginning...

17 Sep, 2012
Balcony

Silly Cows of Gran Canaria

Just come back from a great week away with my friend Sheila we wondered why the milk...

17 Sep, 2012
Nana_d

Awkward Orchid !

What’s wrong with this photo of my orchid?

17 Sep, 2012
Sueb

A few days away

Last week, after a visit to York Races, my other half and I took a couple of days...

17 Sep, 2012
Phs

Fancy a Fritter? ; )

Ok just a mini mini blog. You may remember from two blogs ago the link from GM on...

17 Sep, 2012
Steviethete..

A quick look around the garden in the middle of September.

I haven't had chance to notice what been happening in the garden for the past week...

17 Sep, 2012
Homebird

Bit of a lash-up (in more ways than one)

Been wanting to put a roof over my worktable for some time – not so much to keep...

17 Sep, 2012
Franl155

Who switched off summer ?

Oh boy where did the summer go? Autumn seems to have stuck its size 9 in the door....

17 Sep, 2012
Sueb

FEDERER THE TOAD

This anecdote, told With the rhymes of this ode, Shows how to be bold ... Even if...

17 Sep, 2012
Terratoonie

Fife Flower show Part 2 Alpines, Cactus and Bonsai

I have put these three sections together because the first two were not well supported....

17 Sep, 2012
Scotsgran

Fife Flower Show - Part 1 - The Childrens Sections

I have had a very busy day today. OH and I set off early this am, in pretty grim...

16 Sep, 2012
Scotsgran

a week in the sun [in Scotland ]

OH and I had a super break in Nairn and Embo .The sun shone each day and the beaches...

16 Sep, 2012
Helen60garden

Today it was a rose day.

It seems September works as a booster for many of my roses. Just have a look. Eden...

16 Sep, 2012
Katarina

At last its Mission accomplished !!!

As I said on a previous blog we had made the pond too close to the boundry fence...

16 Sep, 2012
Stroller