A happy robin. I had a pair of small tortoiseshell butterflies in my hair this afternoon. I really must stop using my lavender soap before i go up the butterfly garden. i kee getting mistaken for a flower.
Great photos Flumpy. I love watching the birds and wildlife around the garden. My visitors couldn't stay away from the windows, so they really enjoyed it too. I haven't seen any butterflies yet, but I'm just as glad not to have the cabbage whites around just yet on my winter greens.
Marion and Flumpy - yes snake scarers - they vibrate which seems to worry the snakes. I only put that one there after a worrying scare last summer. I had been down to that corner several times cutting lavender and bringing them up to bunch and hang, and looked out the window and there was a large Brown snake sunning itself on the path right beside where I had been reaching in to cut branches! Hubby scared it away, minus a few inches of tail, with a shovel, but I promptly moved the scarer from another location to that site. Haven't seen a snake in that location since.
Marion, thanks for the advice about the expected size of the Cerinthe. It's my first time growing them.
Took some photos of Hellebores just emerging this morning (lovely sunny day again).
Its only when I see photos that it hits home just how rough our country is. There's shale and quarts rocks all over the place. I always have to watch my footing when moving around outside, in case of fall.
I just looked at my rain records and we've only had 4mm since 18 July. Looks as though hose-dragging time is coming up. I've had the sprinkler going on some of the beds today. The trouble is that the frost draws the moisture out of the ground even though it has been cold. Oh well, I should be used to it by now
Yes Pat. Taking photos is all about seeing. I sometimes only see the weeds threatening my plants after I have taken a photo!. Seems strange that you are watering in spring while we are watering in the height of summer. Spring is usually the time when we do not need to water. We have blue skies again in Bristol today and great weather for the balloon fiesta. Over a hundred balloons have been going up twice a day since Thursday and lighting up to music after nine each night. One has been powered by the sun as a token to Bristol being European Green Capital this year but all the others still powered by butane. My pelargoniums are at their zenith in lots of corners of the garden so will take some pics. Love hellebores.I get six months of flowering from them.
As promised pics of my pelargoniums. They go back into the conservatory in October so I have flowering all year. I love their cheerful bright colours in the depth of winter.
Really nice. I had to pass all my pelargoniums to my daughter in Canberra - we're too cold here - even in the GH. She enjoys them and I get to see them when I visit.
Morning Marion and Evening Pat, lovely pictures and flowers both of you , the weather is dry but grey, it was blue sky early this morning and must of rained in the night, that's the flowers watered .
Pat we probably get 18mm of rain in one week in the NW If you book a holiday here you have to take a mix of clothes jumpers and summer clothes, that's why it's nice to go abroad
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A happy robin. I had a pair of small tortoiseshell butterflies in my hair this afternoon. I really must stop using my lavender soap before i go up the butterfly garden. i kee getting mistaken for a flower.
Great photos Flumpy. I love watching the birds and wildlife around the garden. My visitors couldn't stay away from the windows, so they really enjoyed it too. I haven't seen any butterflies yet, but I'm just as glad not to have the cabbage whites around just yet on my winter greens.
Marion and Flumpy - yes snake scarers - they vibrate which seems to worry the snakes. I only put that one there after a worrying scare last summer. I had been down to that corner several times cutting lavender and bringing them up to bunch and hang, and looked out the window and there was a large Brown snake sunning itself on the path right beside where I had been reaching in to cut branches! Hubby scared it away, minus a few inches of tail, with a shovel, but I promptly moved the scarer from another location to that site. Haven't seen a snake in that location since.
Marion, thanks for the advice about the expected size of the Cerinthe. It's my first time growing them.
Took some photos of Hellebores just emerging this morning (lovely sunny day again).
Its only when I see photos that it hits home just how rough our country is. There's shale and quarts rocks all over the place. I always have to watch my footing when moving around outside, in case of fall.
I just looked at my rain records and we've only had 4mm since 18 July. Looks as though hose-dragging time is coming up. I've had the sprinkler going on some of the beds today. The trouble is that the frost draws the moisture out of the ground even though it has been cold. Oh well, I should be used to it by now
Yes Pat. Taking photos is all about seeing. I sometimes only see the weeds threatening my plants after I have taken a photo!. Seems strange that you are watering in spring while we are watering in the height of summer. Spring is usually the time when we do not need to water. We have blue skies again in Bristol today and great weather for the balloon fiesta. Over a hundred balloons have been going up twice a day since Thursday and lighting up to music after nine each night. One has been powered by the sun as a token to Bristol being European Green Capital this year but all the others still powered by butane. My pelargoniums are at their zenith in lots of corners of the garden so will take some pics. Love hellebores.I get six months of flowering from them.
the balloons sound lovely. Hope you have a lovely time watching them.
As promised pics of my pelargoniums. They go back into the conservatory in October so I have flowering all year. I love their cheerful bright colours in the depth of winter.
Really nice. I had to pass all my pelargoniums to my daughter in Canberra - we're too cold here - even in the GH. She enjoys them and I get to see them when I visit.
Morning Marion and Evening Pat, lovely pictures and flowers both of you
, the weather is dry but grey, it was blue sky early this morning and must of rained in the night, that's the flowers watered 
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Pat we probably get 18mm of rain in one week in the NW
If you book a holiday here you have to take a mix of clothes jumpers and summer clothes, that's why it's nice to go abroad 