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Personally I love the look of the autumn leaves, but I can understand that if my favourite food was juicy green leaves then the pretty multicoloured carpet that forms at this time of year would be somewhat disappointing …
Category: Gardening
Blackberries
It’s a memory thing …
Rhubarb
Not to be confused with the cartoon Roobarb (sometimes called Roobarb and Custard) that used to air on the BBC just before the main evening news. Roobarb was clearly iconic rather than ironic! (BTW rhubarb leaves are of course poisonous to humans, whereas the internet assures me that those same leaves do no harm to […]
Bully
Slightly surprised to discover that there really are carnivorous snails, some even introduced from distant lands to control native snail populations …
Branch
Do snails have a reverse gear? Maybe there is someone out there who knows …
Orientation
I have to admit I have some sympathy – even in a conventional flat bed this can sometimes be tricky …
Lost
Look on the bright side – the garden’s overgrown because of all the good weather we’ve been having …
Crowded
Predictably this morning’s rain meant that we saw virtually no one else out and about during our “daily exercise” walk. However, we did see an unusually large number of snails …
Leak
Anyone else noticed their garden getting unseasonably dry?
19?
Many gardens around here are now looking very much neater than usual – I can only presume that this is happening elsewhere too …
