Comments on: Bumbling on…

By: Rosie Harden-Vane

Rosie Harden-Vane — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:08:02 +0000

Helen, you are the best garden guru of the lot. Down to earth, to the point, very knowledgeable and able to express things in a way that we can all understand. You never let things “go over our heads”. Thank you for being in the Telegraph!
Rosie.

By: Lucy Corrander

Lucy Corrander — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:38:30 +0000

Hello

About the Viper’s Bugloss – there is a steep bank near where I live where the council (or a building developer) did a massive wild flower seeding after the ground was churned up in the creation of a wide path.

For a while, there was a lot of Viper’s Bugloss. It flowered alternate years but gradually declined until now there are but a few plants here and there.

It’s interesting you are suggesting it could be cultivated (I’ve only seen it as a wild flower) but, assuming one could get it started, do you know how to keep it going?

Lucy Corrander
LOOSE AND LEAFY

By: Kate Hutchinson

Kate Hutchinson — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:45:00 +0000

I don’t know if the bees come out earlier because I live in London but my bees love the shrubby honeysuckle that flowers in February. My favourite thing though is to see a bees coming out of a hollyhock looking as if it’s been heavily dusted with yellow icing sugar.

By: Meems

Meems — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:45:09 +0000

Hi Helen,
Just found you from blotanical. I like your site and your profile was interesting to read.

My garden grows on the other side of the pond in Florida. We seem to have loads of bumblebees on the coneflowers, indigo spires, confederate jasmine, and pentas.

Hope you are enjoying your weekend.
Meems @Hoe&Shovel

By: Daphne Gould

Daphne Gould — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:54:30 +0000

Currently my bumble bees favorite meal is my coriander. They are ignoring my lavender all together.

By: patientgardener

patientgardener — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:30:10 +0000

How interesting – my garden is full of bumblebees but there is a distinct lack of butterflies, despite me growing all sorts of things they are meant to like. I wonder whether the rain last year had a very detrimental affect on them.