Sleeveless t-shirt weather for gardening! OH has spread out home-made compost on the new potato and onion beds which I'm about to plant and I have put in 2 asparagus plants, 2 artichokes and a fig in another large bed which will also get some soft cane fruit and then be caged against marauding birds.
The south facing wisteria is in full bloom, full of perfume and full of buzzing bees and we've been shouted at by a green woodpecker.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
It's odd really how we love to hear a cuckoo when their breeding behaviour is entirely parasitic and involves the death of other chicks. Nevertheless, it was good to hear them yesterday whilst out messing in the veggie plot. Ours arrived on 27/3 - 5 days earlier than last year.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
It's odd really how we love to hear a cuckoo when their breeding behaviour is entirely parasitic and involves the death of other chicks. Nevertheless, it was good to hear them yesterday whilst out messing in the veggie plot. Ours arrived on 27/3 - 5 days earlier than last year.
Big bugs have little bugs upon their backs to bite ‘em And little bugs have lesser bugs and so, ad infinitem.
It doesn’t do to try to impose a morality upon nature ... is the reproductive behaviour of the cuckoo any worse than that of a weasel that will rob a nest of all the fledglings to feed its litter, of a lioness taking a gazelle’s single fawn to feed her cubs or a heron emptying a pond of fish to feed its nestlings?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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The south facing wisteria is in full bloom, full of perfume and full of buzzing bees and we've been shouted at by a green woodpecker.
I'm happy because a green haze is appearing on the trees on the other side of the valley, visible through the living room windows.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
And little bugs have lesser bugs and so, ad infinitem.
It doesn’t do to try to impose a morality upon nature ... is the reproductive behaviour of the cuckoo any worse than that of a weasel that will rob a nest of all the fledglings to feed its litter, of a lioness taking a gazelle’s single fawn to feed her cubs or a heron emptying a pond of fish to feed its nestlings?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.