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aka Tradescantia by Sue S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening Half way through the week I got a message from Mr Subjunctive, over at Plants are the Strangest People. Had I any idea, he asked, why in the past few days he had had literally ... Read on »
Don't throw those chrysanthemums away - well, not yet anyway... by Sue S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening Chrysanthemums have to be THE plant of the late autumn. Just when everything else is dying off, they burst into flower and - depending on what type you've got and how they've ... Read on »
Quite possibly the ugliest plant I've ever seen... by Sue S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening I mentioned a few posts back that weeds aren't a particular problem when you balcony garden, but that things do sometimes float in on the wind and seed themselves in the conta ... Read on »
A sorry sight ... by Sue S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening I've always had pelargoniums on the balcony. Common as muck they may be, but in full bloom they're glorious. And with a bit of protection they will not only over-winter, and b ... Read on »
Roll on November ... by Sue S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening This was the week that the temperature dropped 10°C overnight. Last Sunday I went to the garden centre wearing only a T-shirt (well, no - I had trousers on too, but you kn ... Read on »
When Pets Become Pests ... by Sue S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening It's not every day that a London bird makes the evening news on Italian TV. But the other night there was a short feature on the bird which is probably now the most frequently ... Read on »
Weeds... by Sue S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening One of the advantages of balcony gardening is that you don't get weeds. Not having a garden means that, of necessity you're using bought - and sterilised - compost, and though ... Read on »
Berries by Sue S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening When I left England, there wasn't much in flower in the garden but it was full of berries. Red ones, orange ones, purple ones and white ones .... everywhere you turned there w ... Read on »
Hummingbird Hawk-moth by Sue S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening Mum, come quick - there's a thing on your plants!And what a thing. It was a Hummingbird Hawk-moth ( Macroglossum stellatarum ) - an insect which visits the balcony occasionall ... Read on »
Skywatch Friday : Alps by Sue S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening Last week, I flew back to Milan from London. It was a beautifully clear day, with almost no cloud, providing wonderful views of Europe below. The white cliffs of Dover, the Se ... Read on »
Oh my goodness ... by Sue S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening I am, as a close friend of mine would say, gobstruck. Now I know what they feel like on Oscar night. You know, they're sat there at their tables trying to look as if they're r ... Read on »
Wow! I've been nominated .. by Sue S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening OK, well - I was going to ignore it. I mean play it cool and not make a big deal of it. But then I go into other sites and see they're all yelling VOTE FOR ME! Well, if the co ... Read on »
Skywatch Friday : Buzzard by Sue S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening While we were at Eraclea Mare, we went on a lot of long bike rides - through the fields, around the lagoon, and along the river path. On one of them I spotted a buzzard ( bute ... Read on »
Hints of Autumn by Sue S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening Summer doesn't want to die this year. I came over to England with a case full of warm clothes, but I've not needed them. It's been warm and sunny. Not too hot - but warm enoug ... Read on »
Bright Spots in the Garden by Sue S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening I've been back in England for a week, thinking that we might finally get the finishing touches put to the house and get it ready for letting again. But it seems that every tim ... Read on »
Skywatch Friday : Sea and Sky by Sue S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening If you want to go surfing, the Adriatic coast is not the place to be. The wide flat sands mean the water is extremely shallow - in some places you can walk out for a good dist ... Read on »
Dead Man's Lagoon by Sue S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening Have you ever fallen in love with a place at first sight? It happened to me last week. After we'd gone back to Italy, my son and I went back to Eraclea Mare for a week at the ... Read on »
Skywatch Friday : Another London Sunset by Sue S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening Just one photo today, but I loved the layered effect of these clouds over South London at the end of August.The photo was taken at about 8.40 pm. Read on »
Oh, my poor balcony ... by Sue S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening Never, ever go away and leave your balcony to the mercy of husbands and plant sitters. Oh my poor pelargoniums, eaten alive by Geranium Bronze Butterfly larvae.And oh my poor ... Read on »
Blast from the Past Tuesday : Tree in a Cage by Sue S. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening This post, in the Blast from the Past series, comes from May 2008. It was the third of a series of posts about a visit to Gardaland, a large theme park in the north of Italy. ... Read on »