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• Onions out in the rain
  posted over 11 months ago
  My wife picked the onions last week and they're still outside sitting on the ground. It's been raining for a week now. Why would she do that, why?
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• Trumpet lily flowering and only a few inches high
  posted over 11 months ago
  Trumpet lily - lovely. This is actually a weed in Australia and South Africa. It's only a few inches high and already flowering! Some lily. Very eas...
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• Giant lily bud on tiny stem (Lilium formosanum)
  posted over 11 months ago
  I bought the seeds for this lily three years ago and it's flowering this year. Look at the size of the flower bud relative to the size of the stem! It...
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• Neatened up the Tree Fern and planted some Eucomis
  posted over 11 months ago
  I chopped off the dead fronds from the tree fern (Dicksonia antartica)  this weekend and planted some Eucomis bicolor below it. Thought it worked...
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• The lilies are out, and the foxes stole my ball
  posted 24th June 2011
  Finally the sweet smell of Summer is here with the lilies coming out in the garden. The odd strawberry or two are coming out too unless the birds have...
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• Onions and Hostas
  posted 14th June 2011
  My wife inadvertenly planted her crop of onions on top of my hostas earlier this year because she didn't know they were there (they were still under t...
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• Do not buy damaged plants from garden centres or nurseries
  posted 9th June 2011
  I thought I'd share a story I heard from someone. They bought a plant from a small nursery/garden centre and many plants in the place had 'notches' bi...
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• Voodoo lily flowering (Dracunculus vulgaris)
  posted 5th June 2011
  Here's a video of the Voodoo lily with the flies loving it. I had to hold my breath while taking this! http://www.youtube.com/user/plantdatabase?feat...
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• Back to building walls again
  posted 31st May 2011
  I'm back to buildings the walls in the back garden again. I'm using rouhgly cut sandstone. After months of having sciatica I can finally bend over wit...
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• Massacred the front garden hedge
  posted 30th May 2011
  I massacred the hedge in the front garden at the weekend. Got tired of it bulging in all directions and not being able to close the front gate. I know...
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