These plants will self-seed around the garden and come in a wide variety of colours.
Plant Focus: Hollyhocks
5 Ways to Keep Dogs Safe in the Garden
The charity PDSA has produced a handy guide for what dog owning gardeners need to be aware of when it comes to some of the harms that there may be in the garden.
Plant Focus: Seeds
This is the time of year when many plants, big and small, are producing seed for next year.
Plant Focus: Nasturtium
A bonnie floo’er that you can add to salads – the Nasturtium is an easy to grow plant and a great one to get bairns interested in gardening.
Plant Focus: Ferns
Estimates of how many species of ferns there are ranges from 10,500 to 15,000.
Plant Focus: Mint
Mint is grown for its leaves which are great chopped up fresh in a whole range of recipes and can be infused to make a refreshing ‘tea’.
Plant Focus: Rosa Rugosa ‘Alba’
Fragrant, pure white, single flowers 9cm wide open in summer and autumn
Plant Focus: Peony
In Japan they represent good fortune as well as a righteous and noble spirit.
Week Twenty-eight – One Day At A Time
“Herbs in fish boxes…….Tatties……….Mixed veg. & Salad leaves……And in among them all…….Poppies!………High summer in the veg patch……..”
And They Send You Nice Things Too!
“As someone in ‘Alice’ advised, I’ll begin at the beginning, go on to the end, then stop. “
