Had to clear yet more ivy on one of the fences as it tends to move towards the house.
@Scroggin Amazing photos. Many thanks
What about transpiration by the pond plants? We notice that if we remove some of the taking over plants the water level stays up.
Great to see some long tails again on the feeders not been around for some time. Male GSW also on the feeders and Green specker calling out in the...
@pete yes you are right about ripening but we didn't give up with the first harvest and again yes we waited for some weeks and then thought enough...
@ClematisDbee I don't think yours is related. We have one as well and the flowers are lovely and fragrant but no fruit. Our Chinese gooseberries...
We had hundreds of flowers on our vines but so many fruits didn't develop or did the June drop. This morning we decided to have another go at...
We managed to scale the ladder to reach into the gutters and remove various debris including self seeded seedlings. There will obviously be more...
Over 20 jackdaws decided to put on their hob nailed boots and march up and down on our roof this morning. Never known that to happen before. What...
Today a dry day after so many wet days. So we managed to cut back the small conifers on the path to the gate. Then cut back some magnolias...
@Escarpment We have tried over many year with yellow rattle to no success. We have followed all the info but nothing. Hopefully you will have success.
Well over a 100 field fares over the garden this morning. Then (maybe) another huge flock (or the same one) flew over going in the same direction....
No chance of doing anything in the garden for days as it is either so wet or it is raining cats and dogs again. So bottled the grape wines (12...
@KT53 but we didn't have them. Yes they have been around for years but we chose not to have them. Rightly or wrongly we didn't have the jabs and...
Another (or the same) brimstone today with quite a few speckled woods. Little egret flying over the house. A damsel fly flitting about and some...
@CarolineL We have 2 quinces, Meeches prolific which produces fruit of an apple shape and the other is Vranja which is pear shaped. We also have a...
Have now 12 bottles of quinces and still have nearly a bucket of quinces left. Will do some jamming tomorrow...need to buy some sugar. Used the...
I find all this very disturbing. We didn't have flu jabs until after Covid. We have had all the boosters for Covid that we are allowed to have...
Surprised to see a brimstone butterfly this afternoon in the garden. We saw many speckled woods and some red admirals and of course the large...
Not veg but we managed to harvest the quinces this morning. Didn't think we had many at all and even though much less than previous years at least...
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