I thought the squirrels in the garden were cute and I enjoy watching them. I may be changing my mind. I saw one this morning eating something bushy. Turned out to be my favourite heuchera. Wretched squirrel had dug it up, bits of nibbled roots on the lawn. It ran off with the bulk of the plant. I've re-planted the bits of root, fingers crossed.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
That's odd @Busy-Lizzie, I have lots of heucheras which the squirrels here haven't touched. There are new baby squirrels though who are proving inquisitive and eating my clematis and wisteria buds, perhaps yours is one. I'd be most annoyed if they started digging my heucheras up, they are quite expensive plants now, aren't they.
Squirrels can be a pain @Busy-Lizzie. I’m convinced that it is them pinching all my pears and plums come August - and this year my new wildlife cam will be there to catch them in the act 👮🏻. At the moment it is trained on the lawn, in the hope that the waddly badger we saw in January was in fact pregnant 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻. The Chicklets used to love the dancing diggers too - brought back lovely memories 👧🏼👧🏼
Behind the scenes of a Chelsea garden was great fun yesterday ……all those plants doing a dance between outside/polytunnel trying to get them just right for end of May. The garden design is beautiful (contemporary classic) so hope it comes out well in reality.
And I now know exactly how to describe Perennial ….a charity that helps everyone who works with plants, flowers, trees or grass. They have lots of services that can help people before things get to crisis point too. Horticulture can be a precarious career, so it’s an important safety net. The more people know about them the better.
I’ll be there as a volunteer on the Tuesday and the Saturday …….and there under my own steam (with my own, paid for, tickets) on the Thursday. So I’ll get to see a lot of the show this year. Looking forward to it muchly. And if anyone has Tuesday or Saturday tickets come and say hello! The garden is on Main Avenue 👍🏻
(In real life I am not yellow and fluffy, and my real name is a short one, starting with an “S” 😉)
naughty step for me. I noticed I had a bald tyre last night. I called the AA at 5am and told them I had a flat and a lovely young man came and swapped it for the spare.
A squirrel! I wonder if that's the culprit ... when @WonkyWomble was here the other week she discovered that the 'hedgehog tunnel' between our garden and the one behind had been blocked by the crown and roots of quite a large plant, that something had attempted to drag through and had become wedged ... we couldn't think what might have done it ... I bet it was a squirrel collecting drey-building material ... thankfully Wonky dislodged it and cleared the tunnel and the hedgehogs are back to their routine visits
Well, the car is at the garage for its MOT and I'm back at home courtesy of a very nice cab driver. Another cab is booked for 4 to take me back. I couldn't take the straightforward route because the ring road is partially closed as a large culvert sort of thing collapsed a couple of months ago, and because the road goes over marshland it's taking quite a bit of sorting out ... anyway, I did remember and whizzed through the city and then tackled the route from the other direction ... it took a bit longer but I got there on the dot of ten.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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I thought the squirrels in the garden were cute and I enjoy watching them. I may be changing my mind. I saw one this morning eating something bushy. Turned out to be my favourite heuchera. Wretched squirrel had dug it up, bits of nibbled roots on the lawn. It ran off with the bulk of the plant. I've re-planted the bits of root, fingers crossed.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I noticed I had a bald tyre last night.
I called the AA at 5am and told them I had a flat and a lovely young man came and swapped it for the spare.
Well, the car is at the garage for its MOT and I'm back at home courtesy of a very nice cab driver. Another cab is booked for 4 to take me back. I couldn't take the straightforward route because the ring road is partially closed as a large culvert sort of thing collapsed a couple of months ago, and because the road goes over marshland it's taking quite a bit of sorting out ... anyway, I did remember and whizzed through the city and then tackled the route from the other direction ... it took a bit longer but I got there on the dot of ten.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border