Recent content by Jack Straw

Just got opinions back from a couple of qualified gardening friends, and now it's 100% Hemerocallis (Day Lily).

That's what my money's on, but only 90%. Hemerocallis to you horticulturalists!

Great. Need an idea of scale, and whether the plant in the photo has a round or flat cross-section.

I'm not committing myself yet on this one, even though I should get it. I don't suppose you could take a photo from a little further back and a different angle, and of one or two of the others?

The Strand National.

Sorry. My warped sense of humour!

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A point I was about to make. A friend of mine used to live in Toronto Terrace, near the top of Albion Hill. When we went to the town centre, the walk back was always dreaded. Gradient should always be taken in to consideration, especially if you tend to walk everywhere. Coincidentally, she...

A photo taken this morning.

I've retired! :sleep:

If he's using Duolingo, he must be disappointed with where he is in the league table?

It may have just been the recent very strong gusts of wind?

My friend's garden I built and look after. The two Acers in the foreground are Bloodgood and Sango Kaku which were there already, but had been "lollipopped" on a regular basis until we took over 5 years' ago and let them get on with it. There's also an Acer palmatum dissectum atropurpureum in...

Yes, that was him. He slid through the north goal mud, whilst his huge shorts didn't get past the starting line!

Amazing character. I always picture him standing there with a pint in his hand, which looked like a gallon in his hands! A War Years veteran. They're disappearing fast unfortunately.