Back in May I wrote a post, Poppies are easy to grow, they say! As I mentioned, we have failed to successfully grow poppies naturally. Just the one plant last year despite scattering many, many seeds! Whilst poppies don’t like…
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Poppies are easy to grow, they say!
Poppies come in a vast variety of sizes, shapes and colour and are annual, biennial or perennial. So many to choose from, personally I love the large purple ones. Probably the best known poppy is the bright red-flowered corn poppy; a world…
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Bloomin’ Glorious!
I love this time of year, plants and trees are coming to life and we already have numerous plants providing a beautiful display of colour. One of my favourites is this climbing rose called Rosa Guinee, bred in 1938 by Charles Mallerin.…
Posted in Flowers
Flower borders
We think it’s really important to have a border of flowers to attract butterflies, bee and other pollinating insects. Here are some of the plants we have in our flower borders. Rozanne – Geranium The geranium ‘Rozanne’ was announced…
Posted in Allotment Journal, Flowers
Choice Allotments, St Leonards on Sea
Burgess Buttercup squash
Pear from the communal tree.
The last bunch of sweet peas, 2013
Victoria plums
Globe Artichoke. Plot one
Globe Artichoke, leaves emerging spring 2014
Cabbage… before they were eaten by snails and slugs
There are plenty of ladybirds around this spring
Sweet pea
Garlic scapes
Eschscholzia californica
Discovery Apple blosson
Chives
Cabbage white catepillars
Slug caught munching on a squash flower
Dandelion
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