Gardening

[Hugo]

Rarest plant flowers at secret nursery refuge

One of the world's rarest plants - with just four known examples left in the wild - has flowered at a nursery set up to try to prevent the decline of Wales' Arctic alpine species.

Snowdonia hawkweed - nicknamed "the Welsh dodo" - was thought to be extinct until a plant was found in 2002 in Eryri National Park


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjdzvdgn87mo

[Hugo]

I do like to see a nice garden but to be honest I don't know that much about plants and shrubs and have made many mistakes over the years and this year is no exception
I had some nice Campanula in my front border, a lovely lavender blue colour and a cream coloured variety.    When they are growing and before they flower they just look like long grasses and that is what I thought they were when I pulled them out!    Not wanting to make the same mistake in the middle border I let the "grasses" grow and they turned ou to be grasses so I pulled them out too
Hopefully I'll learn by my mistakes in the future

[Hugo]

It has been a busy week in the garden for me as I have had to remove a number of mature shrubs from a border and digging the roots out has been hard work.     It's partly my own fault for planting the shrubs too close and they all looked lanky and untidy so it was time for them to go
I was also going to trim the hedges but the wind up on the Heights this week has been relentless with metal furniture and heavy pots getting blown over so I opted to mow the lawn instead
Whenever I go in the garden now I always use factor 50 Sun creme and a hat with a very wide brim for protection and it nearly blew off a few times