Perched high up on the small, dense flower clusters of Verbena bonariensis, in my back garden back at the end of August, the Comma butterfly looked like an aircraft about to take off. It’s easy to see how nature could influence engineering design isn’t it? Tears filled my eyes as I looked through my camera… Read More The timing of the Comma butterfly
Small garden border changes, be they made for practical or pretty reasons, can transform the sense of space and feel of an area especially in a small garden. Although I love to create hidden wildlife feeding spaces in my garden I love creating hidden/surprise garden views and plantings even more. This summer I’ve enjoyed making… Read More Opening the garden path into the border
This summer has gone swimmingly with so many days of warm sunshine which have kept me busy in the garden and away from the PC. I have to confess to have been enjoying this PC/blogging free time. Reconnecting with my garden has been great! I feel refreshed 🙂 Many garden jobs that were on that… Read More A new gardenwatch era begins
Snapping off last spent rhododendron flower trusses of 2014 Photo snapping glorious sight of first wisteria flowers for 2014 Images captured June 10th. This post was published by Shirley for shirls gardenwatch in June 2014.
From a dreich garden in Scotland I’d like to wave my hands and say hello to everyone around the world that might stumble across this blog. For regular blog visitors I’m waving to say hello again and I’m still here! Please do read on… perhaps you have a show of hands photo you might like… Read More Shows of Hands – Chelsea Fringe 2014
Sunday’s gardenwatch assistants (newly arrived and exploring Woodpigeon and Mum to be Great tit) want to ask you about how your garden grows. They will also tell tales on their resident gardener through a brief garden tour… Do you own a national plant collection? Nope… I can’t see one here. Mind you, there’s only just… Read More How does your garden grow?
…a Great tit (Parus major) egg first at shirls gardenwatch! Okay, I don’t have any images to illustrate this claim. However, this morning I set an alarm for 0510 (as my intention was illustrated by my phone alarm pic in last night’s post) to see if there was enough daylight to see an egg being… Read More I do believe we have…
Well… my gardenwatch assistants have told me that… a mouse is very likely to be having a grand old time of it helping itself to the food in Hedgehog Manor (my hedgehog feeding station with IR cam). My assistants have also told me that I can expect at least two different hedgehogs dining at Hedgehog… Read More What’s going on in the garden tonight?
Reflecting the sunshine of this past week, were blooms in the Glasshouses of Dundee Botanics on Thursday. It’s been a glorious week of weather so a Garden Visit just had to be on the cards – even if it was just to continue testing my camera fix again. Ha-ha this could be a fine excuse… Read More The University of Dundee Botanic Garden
‘error 99’ read the message on the back of the Canon 400D display (LCD monitor) when using the Canon EFS 17-85mm lens. This camera worked fine with other lenses so we concluded that it was the 17-85mm that had the problem. Advice given on camera display: Turn power switch off and on again or re-install… Read More Fixed: error 99 with Canon EFS 17-85mm 🙂