I *finally* got my first bee in the garden. YAY! \o/ I think it’s a Buff Tailed Bee (Bombus terrestris). It might also be either a White Tailed Bee (Bombus lucorum) or a Garden Bumblebee (Bombus hortorum). I find it really difficult to work out which is which. *sigh* I wish I had a better pic to…… Continue reading First Bee – 2016
Just a dead quick one. I was looking up a few things on Google Earth (As you do) and decided to have a look to see if my areas photo had been updated of late. As it goes, no… BUT… What about this for a blast from the past? This was taken March ’09. There…… Continue reading Google Earth and Changes
This morning I decided to have a walk around the garden, mainly looking to trim up the border edge and do some general weeding. What really happened was that I didn’t need to tidy up the edge and the weeding just took 2 mins with my hoe. The majority of the time was taken up…… Continue reading Spring Bulbs
It’s normally ‘Know Your Onions’… But we are talking about my onions here, not yours. We can talk about yours later. But for now it’s all about me and mine… Cos that’s how I roll. I spent only an hour in the garden today. Tiredness and rain were not conducive to getting stuff done it…… Continue reading Know My Onions
Following up on my last post when I talked about needing to do some pruning on my Winter Jasmine… Well I did it. Before and after. I was really concerned after making a start as to the immense amount of dead wood there was in there. I’d say almost half of it was. Quite shocking…… Continue reading Jasmine Pruning
You can see my Winter Jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum) and to say that it needs pruning is a bit of an understatement. I hasn’t flowered well at all since I got it and started training it over my fence. My neighbour thought it was because it has never been pruned, or possibly pruned at the wrong…… Continue reading Winter Jasmine Pruning
Just a quick one. Last year I gave my Ceanothus concha quite the pruning. Harder than I really intended, and to say that I was worried that I had over done it was minimal to say the least! I noticed the bush was absolutely THICK with big fat buds just waiting to pop open…… Continue reading Ceanothus Blooming
I’ve been meaning to do it for AGES… And yesterday I finally got around to it. Way back in December I talked about doing something with the borders in my garden. The original border lines were cut about 8 years ago when the bushes were all much smaller and didn’t fall over onto the grassy area. But now…… Continue reading Border work
Has anyone else noticed the strange knock on effect of doing gardening, more specifically, cutting your grass? I may have talked about this before… But I can’t find it in my history.. So I am going to talk about it anyway. I have no problems repeating myself. B-) Now I’m not saying that I am…… Continue reading The strange effect of gardening
So after only an hour and half sleep. I decided I would take advantage of the good weather and get on with some garden work. Oh… My… Giddy… Aunt. When did gardening get so difficult? I’m putting it down to the fact that I have a cold and no sleep, but I was shattered after…… Continue reading Spring has Sprung around me
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