Hull and Hereabouts

¡No te dejes morir lentamente! ¡No te impidas de ser feliz! Last year we bought a couple of pots of House Leeks or Sempervivum as...

Unwanted bikes make for colourful flower displays (eventually) or so says Hunstanton. I'm supposed to be stuck in a house a hundr...

Florists across the country have been trying to cash in on Mothering Sunday (or Mother's Day as we call it here to confuse our Americ...

Out and about on Newland Avenue this afternoon and came across this splendid beast growing in a raised bed. It's a cardoon or globe a...

I'm new to pumpkins, a bit of a pumpkin virgin, as it were  ... it was Margot's idea to grow some this year, it'll be a fun,...

Picture by Margot K Juby Hogweed is such a crude name for this little gem of an umbellifer. An alternative of cow parsnip is not really...

As you go up Newland Avenue (up meaning Northwards) you pass under a rail bridge and maybe pay little heed to the patch of land just to...

Which came first the flower or the colour? These are pinks (Dianthus) and have been called pinks since day one or, at least, since the D...

Picture by Margot K Juby Round the corner from the Duke of Cumberland sits this quietly unassuming public house named officially as t...

  Ah so there's our old friend Mankind Under Threat squatting in the belated May sunshine all safe and sound now betwixt the City ...

Lunaria annua Being the sort of gardener that likes to let things sort themselves out, (no point in fooling with Nature because, as so...

Or Crown Imperial Fritillary ... it's a native of Turkey, western Iran and Kashmir so I'm told. It doesn't seem to mind the ...

Well who would have guessed it a cold spell in winter? The media love this kind  of thing, the Met office warnings from a week ahead for...

If the C of C can spend a small fortune on silly Hull puns then I'm making no apologies for this. The design of this years display i...

Hull Council has been planting replacement trees in recent years and a favourite of whoever is in charge seems to be the Sweet Chestnut ...

Here at the foot of the Queen Victoria statue are heaped flowers and balloons and toys and cardboard messages. It's part of that mod...

At the entrance to the Uni the Botany Department shows it can grow a few plants. Margot probably wants some credit for taking this; how...

No, not a political slogan, but advice on what to wear in England in spring time which can be notoriously fickle temperature wise. You ...

This was taken in December when it seems there was a market for wreaths of holly and mistletoe and other Yuletide paraphernalia; how lon...

Yes it's the annual A E Housman memorial post ...