Hywel's Blog archive

Jewels of the desert :)

Some of my cacti have small flowers, which look like jewels when they glisten in...

An August Fuchsia Blog :)

On the last day of August, I thought I'd tell you about how my plants have been doing...

The Pembrokeshire Show ...

One day last week, we went to the Pembrokeshire Show, with a friend. Here are some...

Gymnocalycium pflanzii

Gymnocalycium pflanzii is a cactus from Bolivia, Paraguay and North of Argentina. It...

A visit to a GoY friend

Yesterday I visited Steragram (Sue) at her home in Pembrokeshire. I had a lovely...

Mid-August flowers in my garden.

The garden is very overgrown and looks a mess to me, so I've started to cut back...

Pollen collectors.

The flowers on one of my cacti recently attracted some hoverflies. They were there...

Exotic Desert Flowers

I started collecting cacti when I was a teenager, back in the 1960s. I initially...

Fuchsias so far ...

Well, so far, my Fuchsias have been slow ... as usual. Other people get lots of lovely...

A look at what's growing at the moment ...

Come and have a look at some things in my garden. I'll show you some of the plants...

Mid Summer Garden (2014)

I thought I'd show some photos of my garden taken this summer, so far :) (I've been...

Work in progress ...

A while ago, I showed the area at the side of my shed, and what I was doing to it...