Fairygirl funny the things they remember isnt it , always remember my youngest running downstairs saying we had penguins in the garden! Of course they weren't penguins but magpies , we still call them penguins , the mouse plant was always a favourite too which is still in my garden
Victoria Lodden Anna is gorgeous love the colour, your penstemons lovely too
They're like teenage hooligans aren't they Fairgirl , we woke up one morning last summer to them making a right racket outside looked out and they'd completely shredded one of our sun beds stuffing everywhere, maybe they didn't like the colour, another morning I got up to fiind them pecking the heads off all the red and yellow daylilies!
Yes they are very comical , we've had quite a lot this summer as they built a nest in our Horse chestnut last year and re used it this year , when we had our choccy lab he loved them as they hid food among all the plants and he'd go out and find it lol, they're so clever I watched one covering some food I'd put out with leaves just this morning
In a previous garden, I watched a squirrel for ages industriously collecting peanuts from the bird table and carefully burying them. After he buried each one, a magpie followed him and ate it. He just waited patiently for the squirrel each time, and the poor squirrel was oblivious as he was so busy scurrying up and down to the table. I felt so sorry for him, but couldn't help laughing.
Think we've gone slightly off topic!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Hahaha they are so clever aren't they, yes a bit off topic but what the heck, just had to tell you my squirrel story though, went out one day to fill the bird feeders some of which are quite near the pond must've disturbed the squirrel who as usual was ransacking them, he ran along the fence beside the pond and fell in!, I rushed to get the net, the ponds 8ft in the middle!, but by the time i had he'd got out on his own ran up a tree chuntering away to himself a bit embarassed I think, having horse chestnuts he buries the conkers everywhere holes all over the lawn and young trees popping up all over the place but like the magpies I think very entertaining
Had the same happen at my last house - young squirrel in a hurry - ran across the grass from the driveway, straight over the edge and into the pond! He did the cartoon thing of running along the top of the water to the bank and clambered out. Ours was about four feet deep in the middle - if he'd made it there, he'd have had a ton of elodea oxygenator to sit on!
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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I can't find a pic of Berghaltii, it's died back now but had the makings of a nice robust plant, big leaves.
Here are two pics I did find, Lodden Anna and what I suspect is Telham Beauty. I've moved it a few times and lost track:
I'm not familiar with them to ID your plant Kathy, sorry...I'm sure someone on here can though
Fairygirl funny the things they remember isnt it
, always remember my youngest running downstairs saying we had penguins in the garden! Of course they weren't penguins but magpies , we still call them penguins 
, the mouse plant was always a favourite too which is still in my garden 
Victoria Lodden Anna is gorgeous love the colour, your penstemons lovely too
That's lovely Kathy - perhaps I'll start calling them penguins! The young ones here have made me laugh a lot with their antics this year.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
They're like teenage hooligans aren't they Fairgirl
, we woke up one morning last summer to them making a right racket outside looked out and they'd completely shredded one of our sun beds stuffing everywhere, maybe they didn't like the colour, another morning I got up to fiind them pecking the heads off all the red and yellow daylilies!
They can be a pain, but I've been entertained so much by these two that I can't dislike them too much
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Yes they are very comical
, we've had quite a lot this summer as they built a nest in our Horse chestnut last year and re used it this year , when we had our choccy lab he loved them as they hid food among all the plants and he'd go out and find it lol, they're so clever I watched one covering some food I'd put out with leaves just this morning
In a previous garden, I watched a squirrel for ages industriously collecting peanuts from the bird table and carefully burying them. After he buried each one, a magpie followed him and ate it. He just waited patiently for the squirrel each time, and the poor squirrel was oblivious as he was so busy scurrying up and down to the table. I felt so sorry for him, but couldn't help laughing.
Think we've gone slightly off topic!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Hahaha they are so clever aren't they
, yes a bit off topic but what the heck, just had to tell you my squirrel story though, went out one day to fill the bird feeders some of which are quite near the pond must've disturbed the squirrel who as usual was ransacking them, he ran along the fence beside the pond and fell in!, I rushed to get the net, the ponds 8ft in the middle!, but by the time i had he'd got out on his own ran up a tree chuntering away to himself a bit embarassed I think, having horse chestnuts he buries the conkers everywhere holes all over the lawn and young trees popping up all over the place but like the magpies I think very entertaining 
Had the same happen at my last house - young squirrel in a hurry - ran across the grass from the driveway, straight over the edge and into the pond! He did the cartoon thing of running along the top of the water to the bank and clambered out. Ours was about four feet deep in the middle - if he'd made it there, he'd have had a ton of elodea oxygenator to sit on!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...