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You do not sure but you most definitely do not add fertiliser until tomatoes actually begin to appear

It's breeding some babies, soon they will overtake the Earth o_O

Arisaema tortuosum, a hardy Cobra Lilly that reaches 6 feet in my garden

Hello Madi, that's interesting to know Derek was your dad, did he have a collection of old guns himself? if you can find any old photo's of the shop then that would be good as well

Reminds me of scrumping in the 1950's in Weoley Castle, by the bowling green there was a garden with a very high hedge and an Apple tree full of fruit but out of reach. Non of the kids could get at it so it was left alone. I had an idea so I got a long bean cane and fitted a wire ring with a...

I've already told you they are Day Lillies

My Prius hybrid has engine braking as an option on the selector, it simply closes the valves which normally would be open with the engine off. I rarely use it except on really steep hills

Purple Toadflax, "Linaria Purpurea"

Those are Hemerocallis which means "beauty for a day" so they are commonly called Day Lillies

-------------------------------------------------------- I'm not sure what will eventually happen to all the petrol stations, so many independent ones have gone in the last 10 years apart from supermarket ones, will they become fast charge stations with a small waiting area serving tea and...

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ At least you admit to being a Dinosaur! personally I've never understood the desire for manual cars, having to repeatedly shove one lever with the foot and another with your...

I wonder who their customers were back then for such a huge building? hotels, hospitals, probably or well to do families. Now laundries are mostly gone I suppose. Does anyone remember the one in Laundry road Smethwick? my wife lived there, a very short road with big gates right across the end...

Imagine seeing one this big then!

Another of my weird plants has flowered for the first time this week, it's an Amorphophallus which is a member of the Aroid family and can reach six feet or more in the jungle

Some Rhodophoxis on my rock garden

I couldn't spot if anyone had already posted re this but a new BBC show follows what life was like for a Birmingham Asian family from 1950's onwards BBC 2, June 20

The Dragon Arum Dracunculus vulgaris has two flowers open today, the flower on the right is 20 inches long! very smelly for one day only when it attracts flies to pollinate it

The Dead Horse Arum, Helicodiceros muscivorus, native to Corsica and Sardinia but rare in the wild now. It's the first time it's flowered for me after waiting 5 years. This is one of the worlds most curious flowers, it mimics the hairy anus of a dead animal and attracts flies to pollinate it...

Another of my weird Aroid plants has produced a big fat bud for the first time ever and hopefully will open tomorrow or the next day when it will be an amazing sight looking like the hairy backside of a dead animal!

Calanthe Discolor, a very pretty hardy Orchid from Japan that I grow outside as well as in these pots, outside the shoots are just appearing but probably won't flower till May