Internet Gardening: good and bad

This past week has been a mixed bag with regards to internet orders for the garden. Your local garden centre will always be a little limited and specialized on line suppliers are such a boon. However, you cannot always guarantee the quality of the products even from reputable suppliers. These cerastium were most disappointing. The mouse-ear chick weed is destined for the terrace, providing I can bring them back to good health. Mouse-ear Chickweed [Cerastium vulgatum] is a perennial weed and is very common on lawns throughout in the UK but hopefully it will find a welcome home trailing down the Yorkstone. However, it had better behave. But as the experienced gardener will tell you, there are no such thing as weeds, only wild flowers in the wrong place.

By contrast my livestock was in rude health. How we can all do with the help of the lady bird when it comes to an eco friendly way to control the aphids. They are widely available on line. I have found http://www.greengardener.co.uk to be very reliable. It is also really good fun trying to coax the ladybirds into doing their thing! Just do not plan on getting only one at a time out of the box