I’ve searched online images and queries and I can’t be sure – the closest I can get is mealybugs but I can’t see them when I look closely. I’m seriously hoping some of my gardening friends can help out here. I’m taking a guess that our recent baking hot weather that these plants have endured… Read More What is the white stuff on my box plants?
Today’s border stunners! Adobe Photoshop Elements 9/Effects/Plastic Wrap This post was published by Shirley at shirls gardenwatch in May 2012.
Many moons ago, a children’s television programme (Play School) featured different shaped windows that took the young viewers on a journey somewhere exciting. My gardenwatching window has taken my daughter and I on a few journeys since a school project with ID’s to our visiting birds. Over the years, Flower Shows have taken gardeners on… Read More Windows of Chelsea
The colours in late evening photos are intense yet soft. The flowers in my garden are for the most part subdued. Subdued has a beauty too don’t you think. Here’s my garden highlights for Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, May 2012… Above, Brunnera Jack Frost enjoying a new shady spot, it has coped with the move… Read More Subdued for May GBBD
Garden Shows are really my thing. I feed the birds in my garden and through taking photos & video I’ve enjoyed the challenge of identifying who visits. As I have experimented with bird feeders, locations and foods a wider variety of species have arrived. It’s been fun to see and blog about and I enjoy… Read More RSPB Scottish Birdfair – not just for birders
Help Buglife save the Ladybird spider (Eresus sandaliatus).Stunning image ©Ian Hughes. This post was published by Shirley for shirls gardenwatch in May 2012.
The good news is that the current survey at Hedgehog Street has received 46 hedgehog sightings from my garden since March 2nd. That’s just the ones I see Live too. Without a doubt the real number will be higher. If you see hedgehog visitors in your garden, outside your garden, alive or dead the The… Read More Garden Hedgehog Latest
Subtle and last minute am I for this Month’s celebration of blooms in the garden (it’s almost midnight on the 15th). Our snow only lasted a day (Phew!) but since then we’’ve had a mixed bag of cooler, wet weather with bursts of sunshine. The bees have returned to my garden and the blossom on… Read More Subtle for April GBBD
The chilly cold and snow of winter came overnight. What weird weather we are having here – it was almost summer-like on Sunday! On Tuesday morning, winds swirled the snow in every direction and we couldn’t see clearly through the windows. The pink flowers of the drumstick primulas could only just been seen in the… Read More Yes, the snow did come
On the eve of a potential weather break (back to snow) from our unseasonably warm spell (where garden maintenance and new projects have taken up my PC time) let’s go back and pick up a post that’s been sitting in draft since the middle of March… ‘Guid things come in sma bulk’ (meaning just because… Read More Will we really get snow on Tuesday?