Tuesday 27 November 2012
Rare visitor
Sunday 9 September 2012
Olympic legacy
Any gardeners who had the pleasure of visiting the paralympics would have noticed all the lovely seed heads in the olympic park. Needless to say, me and dad weren't the only ones taking a slice of Olympic legacy. Wink wink.
spot the spider
I think this is a baby Crab Spider. They're bright lime green and hang with their front 4 legs held out like wings. Wicked!
Monday 27 August 2012
Friday 17 August 2012
Cheerleaders
With all the recent cheer it's fitting that my border has reached its pom pom phase. I'm particularly pleased with my orange buddleia that was a twig from a local alley that was shoved in the ground to root. My white Echinops are just flowering too.
Tuesday 24 July 2012
Sunshine = flowers
Tuesday 17 July 2012
Struggling for colour
It's been so lacking in sun and continually wet that the garden lacks much colour. However, the verbascums are doing well and the alpine garden has been good despite the wet.
I have been waging war on the slugs and snails and have collected in excess of 500! I thought I was doing ok until I read an article that said in an average size garden there could be up to 20,000. They have devoured 8 boxes of bedding plants and most of my runner beans. Not to be defeated I am going to sow some more runner beans and raid the garden centre for some cheap plants to fill the wide open spaces!
I have been waging war on the slugs and snails and have collected in excess of 500! I thought I was doing ok until I read an article that said in an average size garden there could be up to 20,000. They have devoured 8 boxes of bedding plants and most of my runner beans. Not to be defeated I am going to sow some more runner beans and raid the garden centre for some cheap plants to fill the wide open spaces!
Tuesday 3 July 2012
Yellow July
After the longest day my garden has a tendency to turn yellow. Note verbascum is doing well despite the caterpillars best efforts.
Sunday 17 June 2012
Mullien caterpillar
These Mullien caterpillars couldn't be more different than their dull looking parents.
They're getting really stuck into my verbascums, but I'm going to leave them to it because they're so beautiful.
Echium success!
After years of trying I've finally had some success with my Echiums.
The Wildpretti (back lit plant above) was a cracking pink/red but was very short lived. The whole bloom lasted about 2 weeks.
This pink flower is lasting much better and the bees are going 'nanas for it.
Hopefully the white echium (bottom right) will get through the winter and flower next year.
Wednesday 6 June 2012
Tuesday 5 June 2012
Friday 25 May 2012
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