Gardening blog archive

Keeping the colour going

Does your garden run out of steam by the time August comes around? Or does it hang...

30 Sep, 2017
Andrewr

Poor blackberry picking

Every year around this time I go blackberry picking at my local bedgerow down the...

30 Sep, 2017
Amsterdam

Found in the lid of the dusbin..

I wondered what these were. T thinks they are butterfly larvae.

30 Sep, 2017
Homebird

Blackwell, an arts and crafts house in the Lake District

We called at Blackwell near Bowness recently and I really loved what I saw. It was...

29 Sep, 2017
Wildrose

Selling Up.

You could own this.

29 Sep, 2017
Owdboggy

Mainly for Hywel

I thought you'd like to see two of the fuchsias you gave me a few years ago. Delta's...

29 Sep, 2017
Steragram

Stumpery and other parts with work in progress..

I have to be truthful , I think it gets changed around on a weekly basis, however...

29 Sep, 2017
Lincslass

I have just fetched the ripened green tomatoes into

the kitchen, wiped out the drawer and put my odd balls of knitting wool back in. Must...

29 Sep, 2017
Dianebulley

Into Autumn.

Autumn came suddenly yesterday, waking up to a misty morning, condensation on the...

27 Sep, 2017
Homebird

What's up with the Weather

here it is almost Oct. and it is 86F here in new York and the humidity is overbearing....

26 Sep, 2017
Vjd

Although their clients were very pleased

with the £5,000 overall effect of their derelict garden makeover...... I was not...

26 Sep, 2017
Dianebulley

Harvest here

Hi all, have had such a busy last few weeks and so tired etc so haven't been here...

24 Sep, 2017
Pamelaanne

The latecomers

It was a lovely bright, sunny & warm day this morning & a pretty pink bloom...

24 Sep, 2017
Green_finger

Sun getting lower...notice?

Shadows from the tree keep the side yard in shade about 2 hours longer now. At least...

24 Sep, 2017
Stan510

Changes to my back garden this year.

When we moved into this house just over 2 years ago. The back garden was very shady...

23 Sep, 2017
Jenlewis

Conifers Out & Border Reinstated

Some 20 years ago, we planted leylandii conifers on one of the boundaries for privacy,...

21 Sep, 2017
Dawnsaunt

Early morning walk down the bottom of my garden

Had a short stroll because it is a short stroll ?to the bottom of my garden but it...

21 Sep, 2017
Kidsgran

*** Another project...unfortunately!!***

We have to say GOODBYE to our clipped Hawthorns Pauls Scarlet they have a virus,...

19 Sep, 2017
Dottydaisy2

Time to strike out?

Is this telling me it wants to leave the mother plant & strike out on it's own,...

18 Sep, 2017
Green_finger

A perfect autumn day.???☀️

When the wind has dropped, the skies have cleared and the sun has been shining, it...

17 Sep, 2017
Wildrose

Added Plum and Avocado tree.

I also think in spring I want to plant grapes and Kiwi. The plum is a Santa Rosa...

17 Sep, 2017
Stan510

Catapillars

Hope you can see the pictures I have tried to upload, thanks everyone for your comments

17 Sep, 2017
Blonkmonk

Some September color.

Ctenanthe Tricolor,a Rex Begonia in a mixed planting peeks out the porch railings....

16 Sep, 2017
Stan510

Remember Mossy? (Fabrice)

A couple of weeks ago I recognized one of the finalists gardens in The Daily Mail...

16 Sep, 2017
Dottydaisy2

Fiesta Minarette Apple trees, front garden

I have been growing 4 Minarette apple trees in my front gartden (to give a country...

15 Sep, 2017
Autumnleave..

Bressingham Gardens, Norfolk

After my last blog about the rats I thought I would write something that was more...

15 Sep, 2017
Honeysuckle..

Gravetye Manor (2)

As promised, this second blog covers the kitchen garden at Gravetye. This is oval...

15 Sep, 2017
Andrewr

Funny Faces Sept 2017

‘It’s an amazing feeling ’ the words of Freddie Mercury ring out as I sit looking...

14 Sep, 2017
The_white_h..

Oh Rats!!

It's that time of year again, the farmland on one side has been cleared of the barley...

13 Sep, 2017
Honeysuckle..

I have returned

After an incredibly busy summer here's a garden photo update! Garden is just starting...

13 Sep, 2017
Dandanspond..

newbie, hi to all

i would like to say thanks to "bamboo" for his reply to my question,i have tried...

12 Sep, 2017
Billyeff

Gravetye Manor (1)

At the end of August, we treated ourselves to lunch at Gravetye Manor in Sussex....

12 Sep, 2017
Andrewr

Longon or???

They have them small and larger in Quarry Lakes locally. These were mid winter photos...

10 Sep, 2017
Stan510

On the wall in local historian Ian Addis' grandparent's

bedroom there was a sampler which fascinated him, aged 8 which he remembered........... '...

9 Sep, 2017
Dianebulley

How To Grow Hardy Bananas Outdoors in the UK

BANANA PLANTS (HARDY OUTDOOR) Musa Basjoo is the hardy Japanese banana. These bananas...

8 Sep, 2017
Grapevinesuk

How To Grow a Grapevine

When you buy a grapevine in Spring or Summer it is likely to be in its first or second...

8 Sep, 2017
Grapevinesuk

Oh Gosh!!..... Not Feeling So Guilty Now...

The rain stopped for a while so I took a wander around, (as you do) passing by the...

8 Sep, 2017
Lincslass

More big changes in the garden..

This time it was the turn of the huge Weeping Willow, it had been worrying me for...

7 Sep, 2017
Lincslass

A fire bowl for our daughter

Shelley asked T if he would make her a fire bowl for the patio. They were too expensive...

7 Sep, 2017
Homebird

Not bad for September

I didn't think a lot of interest but if you have a nose about you will always find...

7 Sep, 2017
Gnarly_gnome

Stan (me) is not a gardening mo-chine.

I have to admit,I'm really forcing myself to get out and water,prune..forget re potting...

6 Sep, 2017
Stan510

Late flowers

Here are just a few pictures, taken this morning on my rounds. Still quite a bit...

6 Sep, 2017
Cinderella

After the rain

The garden has had a lot of rain to contend with in August so here is a mix of rain...

5 Sep, 2017
Linda235

Summer photos from my garden.

I had some lovely colour in my garden this year, especially this beautiful Hibiscus....

4 Sep, 2017
Hywel

Old Garden Plant Tub

Hi All. I'm known to most of you as "Ladyessex1" :o) but now called Goldengirl...

4 Sep, 2017
Goldengirl

A few photos of summer 2017 Vermont

Since this may have been one of the worst summers i can remember, I thought a few...

3 Sep, 2017
Wells

Erodiums

BY JOHN BEAULIEU (pronounced BOWL-you) I don't think Erodiums are as popular as...

3 Sep, 2017
Bowl_you

City Saturday versus Silent Sunday

Took my son to London, for birthday treat, to travel up the Thames by speedboat,...

3 Sep, 2017
New_at_this

More about the RECORD heat.

107F or 41C is hottest day ever recorded. San Francisco went over 100 2 days in a...

3 Sep, 2017
Stan510

Pamela the murderer!

So.... you know about my poor drowned pepper seedlings, and my poor unprotected dwarf...

2 Sep, 2017
Pamelaanne