Can you believe this? We’re starting to think it’s time to write off the summer. Officially there’s still another couple of months to go. The Met Office don’t reckon the summer ends until the end of August, but really the weather gods are going to have to get a move on aren’t they. This is … Continue reading
Here’s another lovely value-for-money plant. It brings you weeks of beautiful colour with very little effort. It gets bigger and bigger each year and it’s arching stems and leaf colour variety are wonderful. We bought a Fuschia ‘Riccartonii’ about 5 years ago and planted it in the corner of the raised bed never realising what … Continue reading
We’ve just dug our first new potatoes. We were a little late planting them in the box at the front of the house. There were 3 roots in a box about 2 feet x 4 feet and about 2 feet deep, so we were quite pleased to get 5 extremely generous boilings from them. There’s … Continue reading
I love geraniums. Such good value. And I am talking here about the hardy perennial geraniums rather than the more decorative hanging basket, pot and patio pelargoniums that only last a season unless you have the luxury of a glass house to overwinter them. They have their merits of course. But it’s horses for courses, … Continue reading
What a revolting summer so far. All the rain and humidity. It wasn’t long ago that we were facing a hosepipe ban and now we have floods, hailstones the size of golf balls and enough flood water to drown our cars. And because it’s summer it’s warm and humid. Donchya love it. Noooo… But oh, … Continue reading
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