I shall take great pleasure in 50 years time telling all the local kids how small it used to be.

There's a section that takes you to the Natural History Museum's site which can identifiy what trees are native to your postcode area. Here's what it has to say about Barlick & Earby:

Trees native to Barlick & Earby click here

Ive put it on my favourite,s Last Spring i couldnt help noticing especially around the Kellbrook to Foulridge area how thick with blossom the hawthorn,s were.Never seen them so full before

I hope to visit Hannah,s meadowin the spring loved the T.V. Series which was a long time ago1

http://www.durham.gov.uk/DurhamCC/usp.nsf/web/pages+with+sections/Durham+Wildlife+

None of yer fancy foreign stuff but a totally LOCAL one. Instead of alpines in the rockery I could use a native plant that grows in drystone walls etc. The list details all garden worthy species.

Yes, that's my New Year's Resolution. Create a Barlick garden.

W hat a good idea, I plant swap when i can and have even took friends who i met  on the bus plants! One nice man at the bus stop is going to swop me a dark  Aster for my light one lol!i

'One nice man at the bus stop is going to swop me a dark Aster for my light one lol!i '

I've seen some good chat up lines but.......  What we need is a unique plant like the Graphicus Spykeyensis, or do we already have one?

Lol! he,s From Barlick too! Quite old enough to be my dad!Anyway i have a manand certainly dont want another! Lol!

No need to search for a graphicus spykeyensis plant, Stanley. I had to giggle at the description of Calluna Vulgaris on the Natural History Museum's website, yet found it disturbingly similar to my own personality and lifestyle. It says I'm often itortuous but lacking in petioles, I'm glabrous and have 4 deep earlobes. That's me to a T.

HABIT: Decumbent to erect, bushy, evergreen shrub, to 80cm tall, forming extensive mat-like colonies. STEMS: Numerous, rooting at nodes, often ėtortuous. LEAVES: 1-2mm, lacking petioles, triangular in cross-section, glabrous, in 4 vertical rows. INFLORESCENCE: Dense spikes of numerous flowers, each with 4 bracts. FLOWERS: 3- 4.5mm; sepals oblong, petal-like but longer than petals, pinkish-purple; petals fused at base, pink, deeply 4-lobed. FRUIT: Few-seeded capsule, 2-2.5mm long, dehiscing length-wise. FLOWERING PERIOD: July to September.

Horticultural information: A low-growing, native evergreen, ideal for the rockery or border, heather only thrives where the soil is acid but ranges from dry heath to the wettest of bogs. Though tolerant of shade, heather flowers most freely in full sun. The wild form can be raised from seed collected from October to November, dried and sieved, and sown in spring on a peat substitute/sand mixture in a cold frame. Plant out in spring on acid soil in a sunny position. Tolerates coastal and exposed sites.

Does anyone else resemble their name? Eg Stanley - sharp as a blade, with plenty of cutting remarks.

Lo! you sound as daft as me! i like gardening put alas only have pots now but would like an allotment someday, everytime i have got an allotment near where we have lived we moved.

 Will have to see what happens, but i tend some big plants in the artroom and have had plant stalls at school ,

Lo! you sound as daft as me! i like gardening put alas only have pots now but would like an allotment someday, everytime i have got an allotment near where we have lived we moved.

 Will have to see what happens, but i tend some big plants in the artroom and have had plant stalls at school ,