A strong feeling of motion sickness is not something you’d usually associate with a beach wander with a camera. I brought this on myself. Trying to focus a zoom lens on swaying ragwort plants, as insects fed, wasn’t the most sensible thing to do on a breezy day. The wind actually caught me off balance… Read More Getting seasick with Ragwort
This post was published by Shirley for shirls gardenwatch in August 2016.
July seems to have run away all by itself and has ended with a brief game of garden hide and seek. The game took place on July 27th and players were the gardener tidying the potting shed, the first small tortoiseshell butterfly garden sighting for 2016 and the tadpoles having an extended holiday in the… Read More Brief flutter & leg stretch
It’s July, we are supposed to be in summer, what better month is there to celebrate garden visits than now? As my blog sidebar chat states, you don’t need sensible shoes here. I should probably add – you don’t need an umbrella or the current month either 😉 Today, we are clicking our heels back… Read More Glasshouses revisited – Glasgow’s Kibble Palace
YOUR HELP IS NEEDED: Video footage, photos and stories of the Painted Lady butterfly arriving in the UK are urgently being sought for a one-off documentary for BBC Four all about the migration of the Painted Lady butterfly, currently being produced by an ITN Productions company based in London. It will be presented by Martha… Read More Share your Painted Lady story, join a documentary
Today is the last day of #30DaysWild for June 2016. I’m celebrating it and a month of daily blog posts in a way I celebrate many events – with a plant purchase. My garden is full of memories when I look around it. A plant choice for pollinators ties in nicely with this month long… Read More #30DaysWild Day 30 – Celebrating with flowers
Doing no good to bees whatsoever, was the pretty bee hotel sitting on a shelf in my potting shed. I have to admit I liked seeing it there, this birthday gift from a very dear friend. It made me think of her. However, this has been the month of June when The Wildlife Trusts having… Read More #30DaysWild Day 29 – Putting up a bee hotel
Last October, just before Halloween when the shops were selling them cheaply, I bought 20 bags of small apples. Not all at the same time, I began with ten. Dunking for apples then? No, not at all, I had quite a different plan which was equally fun. Using a plastic, crate style storage box, my… Read More #30DaysWild Day 28 – Apples, a moth and a bat
No back legs are visible on the frog tadpoles tonight. This was an optimistic check-in as they are changing their swimming behaviour. They are now seen very close to the bottom, stationary a lot of the time but when they move it is fast, almost like they are running along. The pond water is currently… Read More #30DaysWild Day 27 – Tadpole update
National Insect Week took me out to the garden with a camera last night. Someone crept up on me and the focus shifted 🙂 It was a non-gardening practical job that took me outdoors this morning, nothing whatsoever to do with nature or insects. Noisy garden visitors were heard the minute I opened my back… Read More #30DaysWild Day 26 – Insects love water