Sheilabub's Blog archive

Quiz time for Shirley tulip (but you can join in)!

It’s that time of year again, when we buy the local Rotary quiz for £1 to have ‘fun’...

Holiday in New Zealand - flip-flops in November!

For 3 weeks from November to December we joined our Aussie family (they live in Melbourne)...

A garden in waiting . . .

Hi everyone, I'd been feeling bad with nothing to post for ages, then decided that...

New house, same old me!

Hi everyone, and thank you to all those who have taken an interest in our 'downsizing'...

A few favourites on a sunny Bank Holiday

What's a Pulsatilla doing in flower at the end of August? Many of the following...

We're moving home . . .

As some of you already know, we sold our house back in March, found a smaller one-eventually-in...

Hummingbird Hawk Moth

Is there any way to write a comment without a photo? I don't know of one, but just...

Fragrant week-end

These flowers are wafting their scent around the garden in the warmth. The Jasmine...

Bonsai etc. for Steragram

I have been 'talking' to Sue about growing dwarf trees, so thought I would take some...

My favourite time of year . . .

. . . Spring has arrived! Prunus kojo-no-mai blossoming Hellebores 'Anna's Red'...

Special gardening book ?!

I would love to know about your favourite gardening books-do you have a special...

My greenhouse today

Amazed to see that the temperature hardly went below 10 degrees after the coldest...