Wordless Wednesday: Hedgehog in me Heuchera!
Screen grabs from video footage taken this evening just after 10pm. This post was published by Shirley for the blog shirls gardenwatch
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August Blooms: GBBD
August Perseid Meteor shower over for another year, it’s now time to seek out the star performers of the garden. If you’d like to see lots and lots of garden stars and starlets from all over the world head over to the monthly blogger event that is Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day. Your host Carol and… Read More August Blooms: GBBD
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The peak of the 2011 Perseids is near…
Take a look outside…have you clouds tonight too? Don’t worry… Saturday morning just before dawn has been suggested to be the busiest time for the annual Perseids Meteor shower here in the UK. Someone correct me here if I have this wrong – other parts of the world will have different times. Please do share… Read More The peak of the 2011 Perseids is near…
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Nature of Scotland Awards
It’s a giant leap from observing and chatting about the nature from a small town garden to the nature conservation of a country but this caught my eye when an email on the Nature of Scotland Awards came in. Feeling it would be a tad remiss of me not to promote this here I am… Read More Nature of Scotland Awards
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A spot of moonlighting
Car boot itinerary: a half moon (lawn edger – but not for lawn use); two watering cans (it isn’t always raining in Scotland); a garden trug; hand tools; a small bucket of self-sown young plants with water at bottom; gardening gloves and boots. Oh yes… and my small (well used) sack trolley to carry everything… Read More A spot of moonlighting
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Top 10 UK Garden Birds 2011
Results for the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch for 2011 were published back in March. The graphic way the RSPB have chosen to illustrate and compare the stats makes it a good read too. You can get the full PDF list here. Although a tad late, perhaps this is a good time to be posting this… Read More Top 10 UK Garden Birds 2011
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The bag lady
That’s what I am just now… are you a bag person too? Do little brown envelopes await filling with seeds collected from your garden just now? I, (and others I’m sure) would love to hear about your seed collection & storage system if you’d like to share it in a comment 🙂 Perhaps you sow… Read More The bag lady
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July garden work, Blooms & Butterflies
Blooms, we have a few. Butterflies, sadly we’ve seen fewer. Rain, well that’s a plenty and not exactly helping progress in the garden and butterfly visits in a count for the big butterfly count going on here in the UK at the moment. Clematis Picardy & Niobe are adding a wonderful depth of colour in… Read More July garden work, Blooms & Butterflies
What’s wriggling in my pond?
Could it be mosquito larvae? Can you help ID the larvae in this screen grab of the video below? They were absolutely tiny and were seen floating and wriggling just under the pond’s surface last night. They also appeared to be almost snorkelling which might suggest they were mosquito larvae. It was suggested to me… Read More What’s wriggling in my pond?
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Open Gardens: Montrose
Sat Nav was set to the Town Nursing Home. The familiar yellow Open Garden banner along the outside wall told us our man ‘Tom’ had successfully got us to the ticket buying/map collection point. We could see many others had just arrived too and the buzz of a town with Open Gardens could be sensed… Read More Open Gardens: Montrose