SpringySteve

Well done for getting the correct information out there at last!!
Please do more of this, especially in your magazine!! 🙏

Nightly votive in the porch garden.

"We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism and love.... Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?" — Jane Goodall
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I wish I could grow them like that. They never do well for me anymore and slowly go downhill after introducing them to the tank😞

A bigger pond would probably be top of my list.

It’s grown a bit since then! 😄

A lush garden path lined with vibrant plants, including large leafy trees and colorful flowers, under a sunny sky.

A vibrant garden path flanked by lush tropical plants including palm leaves and colorful foliage under a bright sky.

A lush garden with various plants including broad-leafed trees and sharp-leaved agaves. Hanging from the branches are several bee skeps. Bright sunlight filters through the foliage.

A lush garden terrace filled with a variety of plants and flowers under a clear sky. A small table and chairs are set up among the greenery.

The winner of our 2016 Gardens of the Year competition, Steve Moodey, created areas of shade and micro-climates to grow tender tropical plants in his south-facing garden.

What challenges have you tackled in your garden to create your dream space?

Ours is really showing some lovely colours on one stem. An amazing plant to grow 💛🧡❤️🌱

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Gnaphalium uliginosum, Marsh cudweed growing in the walled garden pond at work this week.
The pond was very overgrown with fallen trees until 3 years ago and it’s now starting to throw up some interesting plants (interesting to me anyway)
#wildflowerhour

#wildflowerhour
Impatiens capensis spotted growing in a woodland ditch at work this week

That looks more like Paulownia to me.

We have had Eucomis planted outside unprotected for years now. So has my sister and her garden is heavy clay soil.
I gave up my subscription when they kept reprinting the old myth that hedgehogs eat all your slugs and snails in the garden (which they don’t🙄) Rant over too! 😀

Oh brilliant! 🥳
I will go and crawl back into my box and shut the lid 😂
Continue as you are! 🤭😀

Hedgehog Cabin Open 8am to 5pm every day by appointment only A MASK MUST BE WORN 01252 845065 For non-emergencies hedgehogcabin@talktalk.net

I forgot to add the link so will post it here 🤪😂

hedgehogcabin.info/feeding

Hedgehog Cabin Open 8am to 5pm every day by appointment only A MASK MUST BE WORN 01252 845065 For non-emergencies hedgehogcabin@talktalk.net

hedgehogcabin.info/feeding

I’m just wondering what you are feeding them?
I may be wrong but that looks like nuts and seeds which are bad to feed to hedgehogs and eventually kill them?

For anyone wanting to feed hedgehogs, please have a read of this rescue advice. Their whole website is a mine of up to date information 🙏

We have a book that we put out on the day for visitors to browse. It shows a few pictures of the garden from the early days of its creation.
1st pic was in 2009 when we first got the keys to the house. 😳
2nd pic was probably taken a couple of years later. 🤗
3rd pic was taken Saturday morning.
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A little bit of column A
and a little bit of column B 😄

A couple of pictures in there from our garden, taken a good few years ago 🤗

I need to get to work earlier! 😄
That is stunning!!

Purchased Helwingia chinensis at the beginning of this month but I’ve been growing Helwingia japonica ‘broad leaf form’ for years now and is such a lovely and unusual plant.

It immediately reminded me of this for some reason 😆😂

I use wood ash from the pizza oven at work. Just put a light dusting in a ring around dahlias and hostas and it completely stops them.

Hedgehog Cabin Open 8am to 5pm every day by appointment only A MASK MUST BE WORN 01252 845065 For non-emergencies hedgehogcabin@talktalk.net

Shame that you are spreading an old myth about hedgehogs eating slugs and snails.
Please have a read of this and update your information 🙏

hedgehogcabin.info/pdfs-free-to...

Well this is a new one for me!
I’ve never seen or had a dahlia shoot from the middle of tuber before! 😳
I even poked my fingers underneath to see if it was rotted or hollow and something was growing up through it but No, it’s definitely coming from the tuber 🤷‍♂️ 🌱

Just been out in the car and would like to ask everyone a favour.

Please be mindful of toads and other amphibians in the road when you are driving. There are many making their way to their spawning grounds after waking from hibernation.

Please slow down a bit and keep an eye out.

The front looks a lot more picturesque than the back that I get to look at at work everyday.

Marcescence 😄
I learned of this word the other day and I’m trying to use it as often as I can so that hopefully it lodges somewhere in my brain! 😬

It’s growing close to a clump of Galanthus elwesii (I think) that is also not found anywhere else on the farm so could quite easily be a cross.
Most of the snowdrops on the farm look like these clumps.

Good advice!👍

I used to be indecisive but now I’m just not sure 😄