Recent content by NigelJ

Why not take the threats out and just explain why you would like photos of mailboxes (bet you can find loads on Google). Then a polite request with a please in it.

Crocus rujanensis Corydalis paschei will disappear below ground by Easter and reappear next March. Muscari pulchellum Blue Hyacinth

First cactus flower of the year mammillaria bombycina

There is a Cow Fish probably not known in biblical times though. The reason for fish on a Friday is that Jesus died on a Friday and so you should fast and abstain from meat. What's logic got to do with religion. The Roman Catholics gave it up in the 1960's.

What's for dinner? Whatever is in the fridge when I open the door this evening.

Interestingly, before the reformation, when fish was eaten every Friday. Every monastery and Abbey had a stew pond where carp were kept and grown. Also beaver was classed as a fish and beaver tail was a delicacy. Barnacle geese were also classed as fish as they were believed to be the mature...

Apologies Zigs I normally remeember to give names where I have them. That snowdrop is a German variety "Grunschnabel". Apparently it may take a year or so to settle in and is then a "good doer". I picked it up a couple of weeks ago at a talk on subtle varigation in plants. The speaker was a...

White Anemone blanda Narcissus Midget Latest addition to the Galanthus collection.

Frozen frogspawn, in a few weeks tadpole lollipops for the sticklebacks.

Anemone blanda with lesser celandine in the sun last Saturday.

Cave aged Yarg, from Cornwall, is delicious.

@Tetters I'm about 1% of the way there and time and money are against me.

Galanthus elwesii monostictus. Hellebore seedlings Sarcococca hookeriana Galanthus plicatus "Trymming"

@olly-buckle Captain Vimes and Terry Pratchett didn't put it any better.

Aloe vera in Ethiopia I took this nearly decade ago, on a trip to Ethiopia, growing wild all over the placethis was one of the better looking plants.