Showing posts with label gardening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gardening. Show all posts

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Casualties of snow.

5 regular Geraniums - lovely white and red ones.

2 edible Geraniums - lemon and nutmeg flavoured.

1 baby Fuschia.

1 plant out the back that I forget the name of but it may be recovering.

1 small bush/tree with delightful orange berries.

1 french lavender.

Monday, August 6, 2007

Pulling out the weeds

The other day I was weeding through a heavy laden patch of garden. No attention had been paid to the patch of poppies in some time and grass had grown up strongly between the flowers. There were plenty of dandelions pushing their way through to the sun along with a few nettles.
The ground was still wet from all the rain and the weeds were heavy with
Then I happened upon some snails doin it!
And then some more.
I had chanced upon a snail brothel in amongst the poppies.
Feck.

Now a couple of days later there are snail babies crawling all over my walls outside.
Flippin plant eaters everywhere I look.
drat.

ok the plan now is to find a bible and read it to those pesky snails - show the error of their ways.