Category Archives: pests and weeds
Wild and Weedy Wordless Wednesday: a Sunny Spring Day
linking with Cathy of Words and Herbs new Wild and Weedy Wednesday meme
Six on Saturday: Pests, Problems and Plans
With some lovely sunny days this week, tempered by a cool breeze (sometimes gusty) most days, there have been a lot of jobs ticked decisively off my frequently updated to-do list, mostly coming under one or more of the three … Continue reading
Six on Saturday: Wild and Weedy
What makes a weed? We might tend to think of weeds as being plants we don’t want in our garden, plants we haven’t planted and certainly not planted in the places where they appear. This could include both wild flowers … Continue reading
(agapanthus plus pot) minus (ceanothus and ground elder) equals X
…where X is a Project. I have always enjoyed working with numbers, especially the logic of algebra and equations, quadratic or otherwise, and studied Maths beyond what was statutorily required at the time. This little project somehow reminded me of … Continue reading
Six on Saturday: at the Bottom of the Garden
Most of today’s Six are at the bottom of the garden, the ‘working end’ with the greenhouse, cutting beds and fruit cage, so in the absence of a theme or better title we have the unimaginative one above. I feel … Continue reading
Six on Saturday: Mystery, Exotica and Miracles
I had forgotten how much I liked the colour of this hippeastrum, Red Lion, which always reminds me of red silk. This is the one I used to treat myself to each year if I hadn’t been presented with one … Continue reading
Wordless Wednesday: Pest Control
Fruit and Salad
The garden will have found the damp morning refreshing after this week’s sunshine and the rain was a welcome sight for the recently planted out seedlings. The promised dry afternoon arrived and pottering about jobs continued apace, keeping on top … Continue reading
Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
Another sharp frost but with glorious blue skies again made it a raw day, not conducive to carrying out tasks in the garden but nonetheless appropriate conditions for this time of year. I showed willing by quickly pruning sideshoots of … Continue reading