UFO shower on 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!
Category: Garden News
Goodbye blue shed!
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.
Sowing sweet peas (continued)
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…
Tree “chainsaw massacre” in my street
In the garden opposite Papi Joe’s house, there has been a massacre last week-end. Two plots are going to be built on, and apparently the old lime-tree and various other bushes would have been in the builders’ way, so they got the axe. Dozens of years for a lime-tree to…
February flowers
Frosted New Year garden
Posting these belated photos taken just before New Year’s Day of my frosted garden.
New Year’s Day 2017 Flower Count
New Year’s Day 2017 Flower Count in papi Jo’s garden. Choisya ternata Erica x darleyensis ‘Silberschmelze’ Daphne x transatlantica ‘Eternal Fragrance’ (no longer scented but constantly in flower since the month of May!) Erica carnea Sarcococca confusa Helleborus orientalis Erica lusitanica ‘Great Star’ ‘Le Vasterival’ Skimmia Japonica ‘Rubella’ Rosa ‘Pierre…
Happy New Year 2017!
Sowing sweet peas
In the past few years I have not had much success with sowing sweet peas in the ground in the Spring. As I had a good crop of white sweet peas this year I decided to try a new method this season. I am using the well-known “toilet paper roll”…
Garden quiz. New!
Nothing much to do in the garden these days. So the gardener put on his programmer hat and made a couple of quizzes for you to test your knowledge of plant names. Try it! Click the thumbnail image below to go to the Quizzes page.