Photogenic? Yes. Popular? No!

Dandelions are not popular with everybody... Gardeners with manicured lawns would agree with me, no?

Some much needed warming photos!

Most of us are suffering with the cold weather and these photos made me feel warmer, so I'm sharing them with you. [If you live in a hot place: meh... enjoy, but don't rub it in! LOL!]

PS - Stupid me messed up the previous post when trying to compose this one. I clicked on the wrong thing, reverted the kangaroo post to draft and when I republished it, all the comments were gone, it appeared as a fresh post! I feel like an idiot, it was such a lively thread... Sorry, peeps!

Armchair gardening for the failed landscape artist

How about that, eh? Yes, TW, I'm talking to you. Tee hee...

I posted these as a joke, because I'm not sure I like them. They look a bit messy to me.

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This is a kind of PS on yesterday's post. Doesn't this look like a pixel needlepoint?

A bunch of potheads

No, not that kind of pothead!

[Amy and anybody else near the earthquake, please touch base!]

Google mishap

Creative plant containers

Here are some cool plant containers. I'm too hot to think of a more complicated post!

Garden pests

The slugs and snails are still lurking in the garden. Monsieur Soup said he uses some new pellets that have a repellent to cats and dogs, but we haven't had a chance to buy some yet.

Mise à jour - Le jardin

It's a garden update, really.

It stopped raining long enough for the potatoes and tomatoes to recover. The poor things were drowning!

Amy will be comforted by the fact that French slugs are just as greedy and despicable as their American counterparts. I'm a bit of a sadist when it comes to these slimy creatures and love to sprinkle salt on them.

Fortunately, only one of our potato bags was the target of a very vicious attack by the slugs from hell. I made a barrier of coarse salt around all the bags, just in case.

The slugs almost destroyed the potatoes in the blue bag

Remember the wild strawberries growing on moss? I thought that if I planted them in containers with soil, we would be feasting on delicious strawberries by now. Ha ha ha, not so. The other day I was googling weeds and found out that my lovely wild strawberries are in fact weeds. We've been nurturing weeds for a year now. Duh!

The pots on the steps are doing well. Not everything has started flowering yet, but I think it looks ok.

Please note the weeds at the bottom of the steps. Since I took the photo and noticed their presence, they have been duly dispatched. .

The forecast this week promises quite a bit of rain. As long as it doesn't go on and on and on for weeks on end, I'm ok with it. It saves some watering...

We plan to have some barbecues on our little patio this summer. What could be nicer than some meat with homegrown new potatoes and extra fresh tomatoes?

Living walls

I was googling something and came across these pictures. These walls are pretty and very low maintenance...

Flowers in coffee pots

I posted this photo a while ago, among a bunch of other very colourful arrangements:

I found another trio of coffee pots with flowers and they're just as delightful!

Looking at the background of both pictures, they belong to the same person, clearly.

Gardening fever

We seem to be very enthusiastic about gardening lately... Just imagine watering all these pots!

Container gardening in Cordoba, Spain

This afternoon we're going to a large garden centre to buy some flowers for our pots on the steps and also to have a look around for seed potatoes and cherry tomato plants. I suppose that planting potatoes in containers will be less back breaking than the traditional method (not to mention that we don't have space to plant them in the soil!).

Happy gardening, everybody!