Urbanite's Blog archive

Bordering on the ridiculous?

The local garden centre on Wednesday 02 September 2015 Christmas decorations are...

100 Free Alliums

Current Gardeners' World offer of 100 Alliums for the cost of the postage (£5.65) Caeruleum...

Three Little Acers

Putting some food out for the birds this morning, I noticed how my three little acers...

Pebble pond complete

The pot plants at the back will change-I just put these two out of the way. And...

Phase 1 paving complete

This is the paving I began in last week's heatwave-it took longer because of the...

Another water feature

I've been collecting Staffordshire 'Blues' to re-pave my yard since moving in last...

Is it my imagination....

Or has there been a surge in very long, technical one-off blogs lately. They almost...

Free lavender plants

My free* lavender plants from Gardeners' World arrived this morning. Now I wasn't...

Tadpoles on the move

The last batch of tadpoles went back to the pond this evening. Out of the fish tank...

Invasions

Fran's blog about the ban on non-native invasive aquatic plants got me wondering...

Tadpoles 2

2-3 weeks old now. I put some back into the pond to take their chances (at least...

Tiny tadpoles

2 days on... Most have hatched and seem to be happy in the bucket (at least they're...