Category Archives: pests and weeds

Six on Saturday: Wild and Weedy

Posted on September 11, 2021 by Cathy

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 →

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(agapanthus plus pot) minus (ceanothus and ground elder) equals X

Posted on September 6, 2020 by Cathy

…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 →

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Six on Saturday: at the Bottom of the Garden

Posted on June 13, 2020 by Cathy

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 →

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Six on Saturday: Mystery, Exotica and Miracles

Posted on April 25, 2020 by Cathy

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 →

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Wordless Wednesday: Pest Control

Posted on June 17, 2015 by Cathy
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Fruit and Salad

Posted on April 11, 2015 by Cathy

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 →

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Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall

Posted on December 13, 2014 by Cathy

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 →

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Wordless Wednesday: Spot the Difference

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Cathy
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Slugging it Out

Posted on June 5, 2014 by Cathy

It may have been wet for much of yesterday but that didn’t stop several rambles round the garden at various times of day. On the first ramble I noticed that Clematis ‘Rebecca’ was looking a little ragged and guessing who … Continue reading →

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The Two Imposters

Posted on June 3, 2014 by Cathy

There may well be many successes in the garden and plans coming to fruition, but that is not to say there have not been failures too. The fruit cage and its contents rarely appear on the blog and in fact … Continue reading →

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