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On Saturday I shall be here:

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Oh yes, and she does angle grinding, brush cutting and all the things OH says he can't do because he hasn't got 'special kit' .....

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smallswan is a childhood nickname - it's a long story which I'll save for a rainy day ... ! 

The secateur count is up to 7 so far: and none of them are properly sharp, mainly because they get lost and rusty at regular intervals.  Is it possible to sharpen secateurs without special kit?

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Hallo all, greetings from the Somerset Levels where it hasn't stopped raining since the Queen was a girl (well, that's what it feels like!)  Have tidied the potting shed, moved most things twice, even oiled the shears.  I shall be sharpening things next.  It must be November ...

Fig tree

Our fig is on a south facing wall in a brick trough, so has restricted roots.  We water it in dry weather and good crops of figs start forming every year - but when they get to half the size of my thumb they fall off.  The leaves look well and there are plenty of new shoots so I don't know what's wrong.  Any ideas?

Do you know what this pretty plant is?

Got it: thanks so much.  Yes, it's a thalictrum aquilegifolium, which is probably why I kept expecting it to turn into an aquilegia.  This is a brilliant forum: we should get together and make a virtual garden!

Do you know what this pretty plant is?

Thanks for your advice.  Centaurea looks the most likely candidate, except for the leaves... when the weather improves I will take a better picture.

Do you know what this pretty plant is?

This has appeared for the last couple of years: any ideas what it might be?

Iris bulbs

Thank you: I think I'll let their parents 'bring them up' ...

UNKNOWN BUSH

There are a number of ceanothus cultivars which flourish in England, as well as in N. America, but I have found that some are not reliably hardy, so this one deserves a medal for growing in the wild on Hadrian's Wall!

Fig tree

Do you know what this pretty plant is?

Iris bulbs

Herbaceous/shrub clematis