Last week-end Papi Joe’s Garden took part in the “Welcome to my garden in Brittany” scheme for the first time. We had 170 visitors over the week-end of June 10th-11th. Almost as many visitors as the number of plant species in the garden (176 species to-date). The weather was perfect,…
In this pretty month of May, it’s “la vie en rose” in papi Joe’s garden!
On the Gardener’s World forum someone recently asked for the ID of the Lamium galeobdolon Variegatum.
France had a narrow escape today. Papi Joe’s garden is celebrating the event.
Against the party of hatred, the power of flowers.
This beginning of April is unusually warm for the season and a number of plants are flowering earlier than usual in Papi Joe’s garden. The table below lists some examples of the dates of flowering beginning for the two years. 2016 2017 Amelanchier alnifolia ‘Obelisk’ 4 may 1st april…
Spring is back in Papi Joe’s garden!
Early this morning a shower of mini UFOs has fallen all over Papi Joe’s garden. No harm done to the Spring flowerings, phew!
After the old lime-tree chain-saw massacre last week Papi Joe witnessed the demolition of a large blue shed in the grounds opposite his house in the street.
Last December I posted about my “toilet roll” sweet peas experiment. In the container I had placed indoors the seeds germinated in 10 days. That really got me by surprise and when I discovered the new shoots they were all elongated and pale (for want of light). So I took…