Thanks to Mike & Julia from near Coventry for a couple of pictures from their garden. Plant ID is giving the above as clustered bellflower (Campanula glomerata). Looks brilliant!
Below is a flowering corner complete with their lovely dog and great to see that their Ceanothus is doing well. Hope all’s well Mike & Julia!
Thanks to Mike and Julia from near Coventry for getting in touch with some super spring pictures taken by Julia and the garden looks thriving. We’re not going to put any captions underneath the images but let the camera work do the talking. If you need any names of plants etc we’ll get in touch for a run down. Wonderful stuff both and they really get us in the mood for the garden year.
Cheers to Mike and Julia from near Coventry for the picture of some wild garlic growing in their village. “Free stuff from nature!” as they said. That is one brilliant clump of it (above).
We bought some bulbs off ebay a few years ago after we spotted some on a camping trip in Cornwall and didn’t really know that much about it but thought it looked like an interesting plant. It still comes up every year around by the pond.
Anyone got any good recipes for using it? Mike and Julia mentioned they’ve used it in mango chicken and lamb kebabs, sometimes sprinkled on meatballs and have made garlic butter and garlic bread with it. We’ve found a couple on BBC Food here but we’d be interested if anyone out there knows more uses for cooking with it. Sounds great. Ta for the pic Mike and Julia!
Cheers to Mike and Julia from near Coventry for a picture of their new basil grown hydroponically and we must say the basil is looking far better than ours that we’ve started to grow on our kitchen windowsill.
Also thanks to Debby H for sending us some pictures of the first flowers in her garden. “Our snowdrops had their flowers eaten by something, which was disappointing. We have been more successful with the dwarf daffodils (tete-a-tetes?), which are now beginning to flower.”
“We have had primroses/primulas for quite a while. They are the conventional yellow colour but there are also a few red/purple ones. Lovely to have some colour in the garden.” Debby’s right
We here at Weeds hope everything is starting to pop up now in your gardens, if you’re not in those parts of the world that are covered in snow at the moment.
As we mentioned in our post here here’s a few more pictures from Mike and Julia’s garden near Coventry. The first is a perennial poppy (something we also have ourselves, grown from seed a few years ago). They really are worth having in the garden that will give you a good pop of red.
The rest are a close-up of a rosemary flower (above) and lilac (below).
And finally some black tulips with a black geranium (below). Thanks to both of you again for the wonderful pictures.
Thanks to Mike G and his partner Julia for sending us a couple more pictures of their garden near Coventry again this week. What we thought was a great looking brick wall is actually decking (above) and we love the raised bedding and can spy a great looking poppy getting ready to flower if we’re not wrong.
And look at their well colourful trees and bushes (below). They’re looking good Mike and Julia! Keep sending us those pics of your great garden. It really is good to see how other people garden. If you want to send us some pictures of your garden, balcony or windowsill gardening exploits drop us an email to one deck pete at gee mail dot com.
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