Well in the main meal this pm we had swiss chard, broad beans, dwarf french beans (frozen from last years crop) and salad leaves from the garden....
@pete our agapanthus are still in young buds. Lovely to see your plants with the blue which we love.
Our buddleias are also lacking in butterflies this year but then is the whole of our garden and orchard. The whites are around but only 1 peacock...
@Loofah stunning. Such a beautiful blue. Lovely photo.
@Goldenlily26 we don't use apps either but we do use the internet and the RSPB do have some good sources of bird songs that you can listen to...if...
@pete follow on we always have to sow indoors and then transplant the seedlings out. We are in clay soil that takes forever to warm up so indoor...
@pete no the seeds were from different companies and bought in different shops. We are hoping that this year is a one off and it will be much...
This is the worst year for our edibles. Germination has been horrendous for all the beans, peas, carrots, onions, beetroot, swiss chard and so on....
At long last we have our first harvest of dwarf broad beans. Still more to come but so far behind. [ATTACH]
@lizzie 27 amazing we finished harvesting blackcurrants and gooseberries some weeks ago but then they were the worst harvest we have had in years....
Our evening primrose always in flower in the mornings! [ATTACH] and another self seeded hollyhock. Beautiful rich colour. [ATTACH]
While you said a small bird could it be a song thrush? They herald wet weather and will hide away in the bushes/trees and sing to their hearts...
Back in 2010 we planted out a piece of the insectivorous plant Darlingtonia californica in a boggy area next to the pond. It survived the -15 we...
Catalpa bignoides that we bought from a GC decades ago for 50p!!! We love the golden leaves and when the sun shines through them...magic. We do...
Had trouble with a garage door so man came out and put a new spring in. Door OK now thankfully. He took 15 minutes to do the job. Cost us £216....
We also do as many have said but also we leave many of the seed heads of the plants in our garden so that they can benefit seed eating birds in...
The female has a brown cap so maybe against the sun difficult to see.
Well I was sitting quietly having a read in the sitting room, something caught my eye. Turned my head to see a hornet walking along the top of the...
Nothing outside as far too wet. Repotted a bromeliad given to us by our late son.
@Logan great that you still have red currants and gooseberries. We managed to pick some reds before the blackbirds took them all. The harvest of...
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