Replacing the bowl part of my favourite birdbath was something I never considered after two extremely cold winters finally took their toll and it split completely in two! I never even knew there were replacement bowls available if I went searching online. Since then, my bowl-less pedestal has lived on as a landing break for… Read More Replacement birdbath bowl
The brief flash of yellow through dense green foliage outside my gardenwatching window signalled only one bird on Saturday morning! Now… I doubt it was the same bird I have seen pass through this same border, at around the same time of year, in the past two years (I suspect heading South on migration) but… Read More Wonderful, the Willow Warbler returns!
Fingers crossed we get a clear sky tonight. This annual Perseid meteor shower is something we’d really like to see again! It’s been a few years since we saw it for the first and only time. It was fascinating seeing the meteors flashing through the night sky – quite a spectacle! I strongly recommend this… Read More A reminder for tonight’s Perseid meteor shower in UK
Tomorrow (Sunday 11th August) is the last day for counting butterflies for this year’s survey by Butterfly Conservation here in the UK. This weekend, if you are out in your garden, in a park or out on a walk anywhere, all they ask is you note down how many individual butterflies you can see at… Read More Final weekend for UK Butterfly Count
I really should be getting bored by now – but really, honestly I’m not. This prehistoric Perthshire garden blog (7yrs old this Nov) which promotes gardenwatching still has me taking video and photographs with the same enthusiasm and delight at seeing something new from my garden window or out and about as it ever did… Read More Prehistoric garden visitor?
The composition in the photo below wasn’t orchestrated to tell a story – not at all. This image capture was very much a rushed affair, however this one ‘phone photo’ snap does completely explain my absence in the blogging world. Hello again everyone 🙂 I hope you are all enjoying sunny, summer days outdoors relaxing,… Read More One picture tells all…
During the Osprey season at the SWT Loch of the Lowes Reserve near Dunkeld (Scotland), as yet, I have never seen Ospreys fishing in front of the hides. They will do it on occasions and I can very easily imagine the delight on the faces of visitors that catch a glimpse of this sight. Perhaps… Read More Osprey – the ultimate fisher
Yep, The Bloggers’ Cut for the 2013 Chelsea Fringe went ahead without me. Aw… and I love to bake cake and seriously enjoy cake decorating. Yep… and tying that in with a garden tour would have been the icing on the cake 😉 The first cake I thought of when I read about the theme… Read More So, I missed eating cake with everyone…
Yay… flowers on the way for 2013… worth waiting for! This post was published by Shirley for shirls gardenwatch in May 2013.
What’s with the pink flowering native primroses? Spotted, this morning, alongside deep cerise pink drumstick primulas, I initially wondered if I was seeing a new primula species. A fun and exciting thought for a while! Being realistic, I suspected this wasn’t likely so set about the world of Google searches. I asked on twitter too.… Read More Query for wildflower growers/experts