What really cheered me up this week was watching gardeners world and the two young ladies with their mother happily growing their flowers and vegetables while practicing their Michael Jackson and Elvis dancing moves, made me feel so joyful, well done brilliant
Thank you for the welcome, it is wonderful how gardening makes us feel my wife and I are both shielding and we couldn't have coped without our garden 🌹🌹
Yesterday, Bord na Mona (the Irish peat firm) ended commercial peat extraction in Ireland. Peat-based compost will no longer be available here after the summer, and those peat briquettes on sale in every garage and supermarket aren't being made any more. Now all we need is a commitment to re-wilding the barren areas from which peat has been taken.
Many individuals still have the right to cut their own peats, but fewer and fewer people are doing that now.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
I read today that Donald wanted a full blown military parade when he leaves office. He has been denied that. Sounds more like something Putin would want although he has no plans to leave office - much like Donald when I think about it.
Lucky you @Liriodendron. Never saw one in our Belgian garden or this one yet altho the Belgian garden was on the edge of a boggy paddock with woodland and listed locally as an SSI for the sheer number and variety of birds - all feeding from our feeders, shrubs and perennials.
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)."
Apparently they like old trees with loose bark, @Obelixx - particularly oaks. There was oak woodland on the edge of the park just behind our house in Todmorden, and we saw treecreepers fairly frequently there. No nuthatches in Ireland though - and GS woodpeckers are quite rare. We make up for their lack though with the sheer numbers of little birds like tits and finches. Last winter we had a visiting goldcrest but this year we're not feeding fat cake, which is their favourite, because rats are attracted to it as well.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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They were great ... I loved it when one girl was asked why she liked gardening ... and she said "I just love it!"
I feel like that too
Bee x
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
Many individuals still have the right to cut their own peats, but fewer and fewer people are doing that now.
I don't think I've ever seen a treecreeper. I'll have to look it up in my bird book.