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this has been a very up and down winter season one minute its mild next water logged! now were freezing it out and the plants dont know if there comming or going. the dafs are in bud a few i belive are in flower the tulips are showing signs of leaf the only things thast are in tu...

Twelve wonderful sculptors pur on an amazing show at the Bristol University Botanic Garden for the Easter Weekend when it was too cold to garden.  Here are some of my favourites.                   more - I shall give you a list of the sculptors and their speciality later ...

At last, the warm weather has kick-started the season, and blossom is finally appearing.What a difference a year makes. Checking back at my diary, in 2012 the first 'Victoria' plum blossom opened on 28 March. One year on and the same plum tree only started blossoming last week, o...

My aunt has given me a lot of iris bulbs but it's a bit late for potting now (read somewhere that planting time is Aug/Sept.  Is it ok to keep these in a cool dark place (was thinking of the garden shed, wrapped in a paper bag) until the spring

We have a sloe hedge on the allotment, and I planned to make some sloe gin for the first time last autumn. Left it too late & they were all gone! Have done cranberry gin instead. Don't know what it will be like. Any other interesting variations? Sloe gin still my favourite, but d...

Did anyone use the offer earlier in the year for the free bulbs from T&M? If so, how are yours getting on? My Sparaxis look like a couple of them are about to flower, Brodiaea just shoots at the moment as are the Acidanthera and Iris, nothing from the Freesia, Allium Moly or Croc...

My be with all this rain this year next year's daffodil's will have some flowers not like the display we had this year mostly blind. oldchippy- I do know what you mean,very poor year for daffrs this year. That's why I'm not buying any this year, all those that didn't perform I'm ...