Me too but the net is so slow I haven't inspected properly, nor the ones before for some time either. Something to do with a long, slow coffee in hand.
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)."
A few years ago I bought a beautiful blue hydrangea for our acid soil. What I had failed to take into account was that the new bed it had been planted into was full of imported topsoil .....obviously less acid 😳, so I was stuck with a pink hydrangea. I am pleased to report, 5 years on, that I think the roots have reached the subsoil 🥳. I’m hoping the purple gets the upper hand very soon 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
I have seen Dove's lovely photos now. Maybe all the locals here who were using the Internet have gone to bed, 10.45pm here. There were a lot of them on one post.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Morning Dove, and those to come/afties Pat if you're looking in Do you get the spotted ones as well Dove? We can hear them here but they don't really come in the gardens. Plenty of woodland around for them. I'm just glad someone up there's turned the tap off for now. Fingers crossed we get a dry day. Single figures still though at the moment. We got a reprieve on Saturday, most of the day anyway. I had a bucket sitting outside and there was 3 inches of rain in it from Friday into Saturday. Same again for yesterday. Thunderstorm on Friday night too. Hope no one further south got blown away over the weekend. At least we were spared that. Ahh - the joys of the British summer!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Morning @Fairygirl 😊 in the days when I worked and got up very early I sometimes saw Gt Spotted woodpeckers on our feeders in the back garden on summer mornings and I sometimes hear them calling. But great excitement yesterday early evening when I heard an unusual for here, but familiar call from near the feeder my our open sitting room window ... the slatted blinds were almost closed as the sun was low and shining right into our eyes ... but I saw a glimpse of black and white ... as I went closer I saw something fly away that could’ve been a Lesser Spotted 😃 and certainly the call was right ✅ That’s a first here if that’s what it was 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning @Hostafan1 Did you get any damage from the rough weather? I haven't looked back on here yet.
Nice when you get some new visitors Dove. Better than the human kind too I've got a little robin visiting who has a bit of a growth on his beak. I hope he's going to be ok. He seems perky enough, and was enjoying his bath in the pond on Saturday. I got a few pix when he came in later, and he has a squint beak too.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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A few years ago I bought a beautiful blue hydrangea for our acid soil. What I had failed to take into account was that the new bed it had been planted into was full of imported topsoil .....obviously less acid 😳, so I was stuck with a pink hydrangea. I am pleased to report, 5 years on, that I think the roots have reached the subsoil 🥳. I’m hoping the purple gets the upper hand very soon 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
Theres a green woodpecker yaffling loudly out there ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Do you get the spotted ones as well Dove? We can hear them here but they don't really come in the gardens. Plenty of woodland around for them.
I'm just glad someone up there's turned the tap off for now. Fingers crossed we get a dry day. Single figures still though at the moment.
We got a reprieve on Saturday, most of the day anyway. I had a bucket sitting outside and there was 3 inches of rain in it from Friday into Saturday. Same again for yesterday. Thunderstorm on Friday night too.
Hope no one further south got blown away over the weekend. At least we were spared that. Ahh - the joys of the British summer!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
in the days when I worked and got up very early I sometimes saw Gt Spotted woodpeckers on our feeders in the back garden on summer mornings and I sometimes hear them calling.
But great excitement yesterday early evening when I heard an unusual for here, but familiar call from near the feeder my our open sitting room window ... the slatted blinds were almost closed as the sun was low and shining right into our eyes ... but I saw a glimpse of black and white ... as I went closer I saw something fly away that could’ve been a Lesser Spotted 😃 and certainly the call was right ✅ That’s a first here if that’s what it was 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Did you get any damage from the rough weather? I haven't looked back on here yet.
Nice when you get some new visitors Dove. Better than the human kind too
I've got a little robin visiting who has a bit of a growth on his beak. I hope he's going to be ok. He seems perky enough, and was enjoying his bath in the pond on Saturday. I got a few pix when he came in later, and he has a squint beak too.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...