Plant out all your bedding and other half-hardy summer-flowering plants – as soon as the fear of frosts and cold nights has passed. Turn the compost in your bin to keep it well aerated. Water container plants regularly - probably daily, depending on the weather. ...
Well, January is a good month for walking through the countryside as very few tourists are around and one can spot the early spring shoots that are just beginning to peep out of the ground. It’s also a good month for sorting out the garden and getting the shrubs pruned. Our daughter i...
For the shrubs at the base of the trees, I used a Funky Florals Thinlet set from Tim Holtz and coloured them first using Sap Green allowing it to dry and then adding dots of Burnt Sienna and Cadmium Scarlet paints. The moose was from the same Merry Moose Thinlet set and I coloured h...
eventually known asPort Winston,and the one of the two Mulberry harbors used the longest. It was assembled and in operation by 9 June, just the third day after the landing started. While it was only designed for three months of
...lovely yellow flowering shrubs that seem to be typical for the area (My dear British readers, any ideas how this plant is called?),... ...and finally reaching the spectacular coastline. We enjoyed the sight of the iconic sailing boats and... ...
The albertine rose which should only flower in spring is blooming riotously over the trellis arch, where it twines into the ivy and the perpetually flowering mutabilis rose. With blue ageratum sprawling around the garden beds, and deep pink cannas, pink daisies and purple pansies, the garden fe...
Approximately 80 percent of all Earth plants are angiosperms, or flowering plants, that require pollination from either bees, butterflies or other pollinating insects. Sometimes the wind and animals are able to assist with pollination, but the majority is done by insects. Without these pollinators,...