We had another new visitor to the garden yesterday, although I couldn't get to the camera in time. I thought it was the robin at first, but realised it was a chaffinich. Again, I've not seen a chaffinch in our area at all. Considering the garden at the moment pretty much just consists of the pond, lawn and some very small and spaced out plants, I'm amazed that they're encouraged to it. I did wonder if it was the cotoneaster berries they're after, but there were only a few berries on there to start with and I'm not sure if any have been eaten yet, I can't wait to see what happens in the Spring and Summer when the plants really take off!
I don't know R. laurifolium Jo, so I've googled - sounds lovely - yet another possible planting for the area freed up by felling the tree yesterday. I've got R. odoratum over in the Wilderness behind the pond, but as yet it's only a toddler.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
R. laurifolium is more of a ground cover than an upright shrub unless it has help. I've seen it trained up a wall but needs fixing. Lovely in winter, I must make sure mine hasn't disappeared due to neglect during the summer. I only planted it in the spring. Meant to cut it back but forgot
The blackies have been stripping the cotoneasters here Lucid. Chaffinches are seed eaters - blackbirds (and thrushes) are the usual suspects.
Unfortunately, the best one is on the outside of my boundary so I don't see them chomping. I can see how much they've eaten when I go out to the car though!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Wait a minute Jo, I'd forgotten all about it til mentioned here
I'll brave the wind and go see
It's cold and windy out there but bright and sunny.
The ribes hasn't put on much new growth, I'm sure it would have appreciated a bucket of water occasionally through the summer, but full of healthy looking flower buds
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We had another new visitor to the garden yesterday, although I couldn't get to the camera in time. I thought it was the robin at first, but realised it was a chaffinich. Again, I've not seen a chaffinch in our area at all. Considering the garden at the moment pretty much just consists of the pond, lawn and some very small and spaced out plants, I'm amazed that they're encouraged to it. I did wonder if it was the cotoneaster berries they're after, but there were only a few berries on there to start with and I'm not sure if any have been eaten yet, I can't wait to see what happens in the Spring and Summer when the plants really take off!
Lucid
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I don't know R. laurifolium Jo, so I've googled - sounds lovely - yet another possible planting for the area freed up by felling the tree yesterday. I've got R. odoratum over in the Wilderness behind the pond, but as yet it's only a toddler.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
R. laurifolium is more of a ground cover than an upright shrub unless it has help. I've seen it trained up a wall but needs fixing. Lovely in winter, I must make sure mine hasn't disappeared due to neglect during the summer. I only planted it in the spring. Meant to cut it back but forgot
Saw some when we went to Anglesey Abbey Dove
In the sticks near Peterborough
Ah, thanks Nut - got it! It might be useful in the shrubby bit of the new area - hedgehog cover and all that
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
With you on the pink Ribes Jo
The blackies have been stripping the cotoneasters here Lucid. Chaffinches are seed eaters - blackbirds (and thrushes) are the usual suspects.
Unfortunately, the best one is on the outside of my boundary so I don't see them chomping. I can see how much they've eaten when I go out to the car though!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
goldfinches like our privet hedge
and wrens like ivy that has reached the bushy stage.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Wait a minute Jo, I'd forgotten all about it til mentioned here
I'll brave the wind and go see
It's cold and windy out there but bright and sunny.
The ribes hasn't put on much new growth, I'm sure it would have appreciated a bucket of water occasionally through the summer, but full of healthy looking flower buds
In the sticks near Peterborough
Buddleia alternifolia, lovely scent
Growth follows a good prune Jo. It was rather leggy and tied to a cane when I bought it. I thought a good prune might start multiple stems growing.
Maybe after the next flowering
In the sticks near Peterborough
I'd leave it til after flowering. Have you got flower buds?
In the sticks near Peterborough