Asim Shah posted a photo:
Daffodils in late April
Without care plant may be overgrown by larger plants or eaten up. In this location farmers use to actually flood the fields once or several times a week as shown here in the picture. The foam on the water is from chemicals added.
Plants are water sensitive during the final phase of strawberry growth before harvest. Hence the plants are elevated, the water flows lower and gets the roots wet while leaving the actual plant and berries dry.
In rainy season strawberries become soft and foul easily. Hence the extra effort to keep the water away and lower than the plants.
Wet plants also attract more snails - who feed on strawberries BECAUSE all other plants have been carefully removed.
Smart farmers offer other plants such as salad, vegetable, flowers, grass to snails to safeguard the strawberries !!
In album Fruits of the Philippine islands
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Orange lillies
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Children are always very inventive and their imaginations know no boundaries especially when it comes to gardening.
As Joe Swift mentioned earlier, the Children's Quirky Container Competition was a great example of this. Schools across the Cheshire area have submitted an amazing range of interesting and unusual containers to be judged by visitors to the show. I had a look through and was really surprised by how good they were, from small scale exhibits like the Mad Hatter's Tea Party, entered by Bexton Primary School, Knutsford to a large scale container made from a Piano. 
Created by Park Royal School, Macclesfield, this was entitled Keys to Health and Happiness! (get it!) It looked spectacular although I can't help wondering what the music teacher thought? There is one container that I know will particularly appeal to my colleague Louise. St Anne's Fulshaw, Church of England School created a chest shaped container overflowing with bright nasturtiums and other bedding plants, entitled
Ooh Arrgh Pirate's Treasure (She's from Cornwall you know). The RHS are very keen to encourage children to get into gardening and are actively campaigning for it to be added to the school curriculum, with young minds as inventive as this, it can only be a good thing. Also as part of the Tatton tenth anniversary celebrations Children under 15 get into the show free this year. Info from:
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