Berghill

Unusual Cowslip seeding

Exactly, keep them if they are nice, dispose if you do not like them.

Primula veris and Primula vulgaris cross in the wild to form False Oxlip.

Unusual Cowslip seeding

This is a bee caused hybrid betwixt the native Cowslip and one of the coloured monstrosities sold as Primula. There is a problem in that the genes which causes the colour are contaminating the native stock. There are patches of pale pink Primroses down our lane. Sad to lose the native ones to these hybrids.

Enormous Gooseberry Brush

Thick gloves and watch your eyes.

Dead seedlings

As will Damping off disease.

What have I got here?

Forgot about Chionodoxa x allenii which I think I have got.

What's the best way to shade a greenhouse?

Best place for shading is on the outside of the glass, that way it stops the inside from heating up. We use green shade natting draped over the ridges. But the best way of all, is to put wooden sltas over the roof, expensive though.

What have I got here?

Chionodoxa sardonica, sold as Pink Giant, but no-one can see any difference between the species and the named one.

There is also C. forbesii Blue Giant

There is also C.luciliae which comes in blue, white and supposedly pink (never seen that one)

There is C sardensis and C nana which I have never seen either.

There is also a form of C. luciliae which flowers much earlier called C.l. Valentine Day.

weedkiller

Modern research seems to suggest that unlike Monsanto claims, it is NOT totally deactivated on contact with the soil. Reisdues have been found in food crops.

Not that there is any other way of removing ground elder,  so I would suggest trying as best you can only to get the liquid on the leaves and not on bare soil. Counsel of excellence that, easier said than done.

Sheds

Ok, the old Woodshed collpased under the snow, so we need a new one. Any opinions as to the best? Tongue and groove? Overlap? Feather edge? None of those words mean much to me.

TIA

Today I feel so happy....

The moles are ruining the Roadside border, the badgers have dug up and eaten all the tulips in the bottom area, I bought too small a net for the Fruit cage, I have bitten my tongue badly and it hurts and I am still HAPPY. Worked outside all day, the Pulsatillas are just about to flower and we have been married 44 years yesterday. What could be better?

Potato problem

Plant id

Photo size

Sheds

A mild annoyance

Helleborus x hybridus

Timber

Silene and Phlox roots

Anyone used this mower

An invitation to View June 2012

A few of our bulbs.