June flowers in our garden
It’s a wonderful time of year when so many plants start to flower . . .
wild and gardens
Everything outside from gardens and gardening to nature, wildlife, the countryside, sea and sky.
More poppies out today in the garden
They’re flowering thick and fast . . .
Will this #sunflower be a winner in the @twunflowercomp?
Are you growing sunflowers? Have you entered the Sunny Sunflower Competition 2010 on twitter at @twunflowercomp?
Cheered by vibrant summer poppies
This summer our two red poppy plants promise a magnificent display.
A sunflower appears with its hat on
Following an invitation from @stu_art_ist and @TweetsBySkeet, I have joined the @TwunFlowerComp on twitter.
Deceptively serene water
Thinking of the residents of Cockermouth in Cumbria and hoping that they can return to normal life as soon as possible after the floods, it struck me how powerful water is.
The Bicclescombe Nine
Over the past few months, we’ve been lucky to have two fleets of ducklings hatch in Bicclescombe Park, Ilfracombe, North Devon. Five from the first twelve have survived the predatory seagulls and four from the second six have also grown to adulthood: a 50% survival rate overall. I’ve taken hundreds of photos, but not had … Read more
What a wonderful day for . . .
. . . admiring the daffodils up Hillsborough . . . . . . followed by some gardening perhaps . . . . . . maybe not in this hail and rain . . . How many different types of weather can we have in one day? Ah well, there’s plenty of other things to … Read more
From autumn to winter
The wind is howling outside as I write, tearing down the valley towards the sea and throwing rain against the sides of the house.
Looking back, looking forwards
It’s been a funny old year. We waited in expectation for the summer and now look back to when it should have been.
Elephant hawk moth on my fuchsias again
Two years ago I found this fellow on one of our fuchsias . . .
Beans doing a runner
It’s been a very wet and dull August here, which hasn’t helped our runner beans. We were late planting them out as we had to prepare our new vegetable plot.