Gardening blog archive

Garden visitor

Just had to share this with you. We live in the country and have lots of wildlife,...

31 Jul, 2013
Honeysuckle..

Interesting prog. on this Friday

BBC2 Friday @ 9pm. Horizon prog. about why our bees are dwindling!! Thought you might...

31 Jul, 2013
Grandmage

Gardening on Standby

7th August: update I checked my blog and site and found comments and "likes" and...

31 Jul, 2013
Gardengenie..

Nearly August!

Here we are at least half way through the Summer, where does it go? We spent the...

31 Jul, 2013
Honeysuckle..

Rose 1949

I pm'd Rose because she has not been around for a while. She asked me to say hello...

31 Jul, 2013
Scotsgran

Glamis Castle Day out to Crathes Castle Part 1

Hi everyone you may not know but today we the volunteers and our gardener Letty were...

30 Jul, 2013
Scotkat

Summer heatwave garden 2013

After 4 weeks of scorching heat, enough to make me unwell a couple of weeks back....

30 Jul, 2013
Dorjac

Come to the Isles of Scilly with me.

Here are some of this year's photos of the Isles of Scilly taken in the middle of...

30 Jul, 2013
Wildrose

flower show

hi all had a nice berfday treat on saturday last and went to tatton park flower show,wot...

30 Jul, 2013
Gardengadgit

Once upon a time...not so long ago, in a garden nearby...

...there was a happy, yet, complacent young god named Apollo... ...and, he'd been...

30 Jul, 2013
Karenfrance

Fishing again

Have had lots of strawberries ,even made jam . It beats me why strawberries are so...

29 Jul, 2013
1pop

Wall Garden in Capestang, France

I thought that this "wall garden" was so impressive that it merited a blog in its...

29 Jul, 2013
Sarahm

French Exotic Gardens

Just thought I'd share some lovely plant pics for other Goyers who like the Exotic...

29 Jul, 2013
Sarahm

A fruitful summer 2013

There you go...my 2nd blog celebrates the summer and the lovely fruits it brings...

28 Jul, 2013
Nbhatt

Beautiful

As I have gone through this lovely site, I have found that I love it, and will visit...

27 Jul, 2013
Sanyn

AT LAST, IT'S......

Since I put this blog together the weather has changed-heavy...

27 Jul, 2013
Gee19

Our mismanaged, wayward but much loved cottage garden in July.

We love our garden but it does have a tendency to 'do its own thing' and we have...

27 Jul, 2013
Wildrose

Giant Knapweed development.

I grew the plants, Centaurea macrocephala from seed about 5 years ago, mainly because...

27 Jul, 2013
Seaburngirl

garden this week

Just a few pict of the garden Look at it its 9 foot lovely hollyhocks Butterflies...

27 Jul, 2013
Irene24

Great tomatoes

Just the day for a taste test. First tom out of my greenhouse without a...

26 Jul, 2013
230338

Garden progress so far, 2010 vs 2013

Hi guys, First post :) Great forum, I've joined up to get some inspiration for more...

26 Jul, 2013
Cordyman

Harvest Time ....Yes, of course it was worth the effort!!

You may remember my blog a couple of weeks ago which discussed the woes of the vegetable...

26 Jul, 2013
Paulthegard..

New gardeners growing Brassicas

need to spray them with a little washing up liquid in the spray bottle. It stops...

26 Jul, 2013
Dianebulley

Visit to Crocosmia Garden,Caistor, Lincolnshire

On Monday morning I met Barbara [oliveoil] in Caistor for our arranged visit to the...

25 Jul, 2013
Marjories

Pre Judging

Here are a few pictures taken after a tidy up, and ready for inspection by our village...

25 Jul, 2013
Cinderella

LET YOUR **IMAGINATION** RUN WILD!!

We visited this garden over a week ago, the owners were opening to raise money for...

25 Jul, 2013
Dottydaisy2

Geranium phaeum as a hedge/row

by John Beaulieu (Bowl-you) The phaeum group are among my favourite geraniums. Geranium...

25 Jul, 2013
Bowl_you

Gazanias

I love Gazanias and this year they have been lovely with all the hot weather weve...

25 Jul, 2013
Hollyeves

Never, ever, give Organically grown vegetables away.

I have paid £3 for an Organic Cauliflower. Potatoes are £4 a kilo. My potato crop...

25 Jul, 2013
Dianebulley

Summer border..

This also survived well,whilst we were away,with no watering whatsoever..:o) The...

25 Jul, 2013
Bloomer

RAIN!

Lovely steady downpour, looks as if it means to go on for ages. Everything smells...

24 Jul, 2013
Steragram

A Colourful Welcome Home!

After a wonderful week in Eastbourne with Sandra and Russell we arrived home on Saturday...

24 Jul, 2013
Pansypotter

maisie

been a bit under the weather as i had contracted shingles and bloody painful it is...

24 Jul, 2013
Maisiesdad

An odd day.

Yesterday the weather was really quite odd here, cloudy and muggy to start, then...

24 Jul, 2013
Surreylad

Part 1 Arran

A change in weather today compared to the heatwave last week,it was heavy drizzle...

23 Jul, 2013
Scotkat

Flowers today :)))

Hi all had a great weekend ,didnt have time to do much in the garden so just thought...

23 Jul, 2013
Mark61

The Aeoniums love the hot weather!

This heatwave and baking sunshine has brought the best colour out of my Aeonium "Zwartkop"...

23 Jul, 2013
Lutleyyeltz

Nearly time for haymaking!

I thought that I'd show a few pics, as an update of leaving areas of my front grassed...

23 Jul, 2013
Lutleyyeltz

They survived the Holiday :o)

We returned from our lovely Holiday with Carole and Harry in Eastbourne last week,but...

23 Jul, 2013
Bloomer

100 free Allium bulbs

Gardeners' World Mag, August 2013 edition. 100 free Allium bulbs worth £24.44 for...

23 Jul, 2013
Drc726

my garden problem

thank you all for your help i have been gardening since i was 20 im now 74 and i...

22 Jul, 2013
Ford5000

All glazed in :o)

It's a bit long sorry lol ... Outside the French doors in the kitchen, there's a...

22 Jul, 2013
Hywel

Back down on the veg patch...again

Just recording the progress so far So here we are mid july with GNUts guarding the...

22 Jul, 2013
Steviethete..

To fell or not to fell?

After some deliberation we have decided to get rid of our enormous leylandi furs...

22 Jul, 2013
Grandmage

Kazakhstan Revisited (7) - Plants with the WOW Factor

This is the last of the blogs on my recent trip back to Kazakhstan. Being a plantsman,...

22 Jul, 2013
Andrewr

July - It's hot!!

School holidays are upon us here in Scotland and the kids around the village are...

21 Jul, 2013
Scottish

Tomatoes ‘Marmande’

Tomatoes ‘Marmande’ At last my Tomatoes ‘Marmande’ have begun flowering! As I’ve...

21 Jul, 2013
Balcony

Once a hovel...

Hello all! I've been a bit pre-occupied lately. OH was home and we went to Scotland...and...

21 Jul, 2013
Karenfrance

Too expensive

I know things are getting more and more expensive these days, but does anyone else...

21 Jul, 2013
Waddy

Gardening, particularly allotment gardening,

is important for the prevention of Osteoporosis, as it involves pulling and tugging...

21 Jul, 2013
Dianebulley