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, which has gloriously felted leaves and pale yellow flowers with jam-coloured centres. This species doesn't seem to suffer as much as some others, but I always keep an eye out and pick the caterpillars off whenever I see them. I found one on the kitchen

LavenderA mild antidepressant, a restorative for the nervous system and a mild sedative, lemon balm can be enjoyed as a tea.Lemon balmWhen dried, the bright-yellow flowers can be made into a calming tea, which helps combat insomnia.Californian poppy

’ll enjoy a long-lasting display of colour in your home.The actual flowers of bromeliads are small and insignificant, but surrounding them are bright, colourful bracts. Bracts last much longer than flowers so your bromeliad will keep looking good for several

watercress I bought from the supermarket for 75p. I'd like to add more plants, and buy some plants for my mother (her pond is a disgrace, it's full of dead slugs). Marsh marigold (Caltha palustris) is lovely, native to Britain and has beautiful yellow flowers

'Whereas sempervivums mostly produce red or pink flowers, Jovibarba species produce yellow, more bell-like flowers. 'Angel Wings' is a vigorous variety with sharply-pointed brown and green leaves.Jovibarba heuffelii 'Angel Wings'J. allionii has long, tapered leaves

amongst the bramble bushes, and the occasional clouded yellow belts up the path at top bluster speed.The air is thick with dumbledors buzzing lazily over the flowers; these shiny bluish, greenish or sometimes even pinkish Geotrupes are shinier than

it has run a bit wild and it's a dumping ground for flower pots, buckets, pieces of wood that I once thought could be potentially useful for some reason, mildly interesting boulders found on family walks and all not very well hidden by a brightly coloured

clunking clockwork model of a beetle, it'll be feeding on the white or yellow bedstraws, drifts of which stain the surrounding fields.Sunday 8th Lizards are everywhere sunning themselves on walls and steps; everywhere we walk they are disturbed from