… sunny warm days and eating outside! We have finally had a taste of summer for the last ten days – just lovely! So today I don’t mind at all the slightly dull and cooler day although I do hope the sunny days return.Lavender cake and lavender coffee sitting outside in the sunshine at a… Read More Summer’s here with…
…meets Wordless Wednesday! To read some chat from other garden blogs posting on what’s in flower this month pop over to Carol’s post and browse the comments. All photos were taken on 14th July 2008.
Seeing a juvenile bird being fed by a parent in your own garden, for me anyway, rates up there as one of the golden moments in the garden – especially if the juvenile in question is a goldfinch! Before writing this gardenwatch diary I had never seen (or should I say noticed) a goldfinch in… Read More Golden moments
…. we have red and yellow meconopsis too! Yolanda from the Netherlands discovered on her recent garden tour of Scotland that there are blue meconopsis in many gardens here. Perhaps that is a surprise to others too.What isn’t as common is the red and yellow ones but I found some on a recent visit to… Read More Not just blue…
The sunshine lighting up my shadier back garden does make me smile as I look out today. Who doesn’t smile on a sunny day? However, that is not why I have a great BIG smile on my face as I write this. I am thinking of another day recently when I was smiling all day… Read More A great BIG smile
I love foliage plants however this posting has been much trickier than I anticipated. I have more than green foliage plants but when I finally was able to get out with my cameras, between rain and winds, it was clear that there were enough greens to go round for this posting. Perhaps a follow-up posting… Read More The Big Green Leaf
I certainly do and I know I’m not the only one! So there was no hesitation whatsoever when Emma at A Nice Green Leaf said she was considering promoting the green leaves of our gardens. I just said let me know when! She just has – June 30th. I am expecting a big turn out… Read More Love your greens?
Last week I visited the Scottish Wildlife Reserve at Loch of the Lowes to see if I could capture the red squirrel on video. This reserve has a good sized viewing window looking out to feeders on trees and on the ground. I have seen squirrels there before however I was to get quite a… Read More Table for one
On Sunday, the 15th of the month, I took some video from my garden for my Bloom Day post. I am perhaps a little late in adding my post to Carol’s comment list of 104 tonight but I plan to anyway. Carol won’t mind – it’s the taking part that counts. My Friday posting has… Read More Garden Bloom Day June 2008
For the last few weeks I have been privileged to be able to see the reality of the processes of a nesting bird. I have seen this in detail through the camera in my Nestbox. In this time the plants in my garden have also gone through quite a few processes. The Spring bulbs have… Read More Evening Bloom Day preview