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• Wildlife Wednesday – Love is in the Air for Territorial Robins

  

  We have two Robins visit our garden, one is currently rotund, one is svelte. Apart from girth neither of our visitors have any distinguishing marks. Male and... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Citizen Science and the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch

  

  This weekend, saw the 37th annual RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch, the increasingly popular citizen science opportunity to record visiting garden birds. Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Rousham – A Winter’s Visit

  

  The Landscaped garden of Rousham in Oxfordshire is a delightful surprise and magical place to visit. The garden surrounds a Jacobean Cotswold house built for th... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2016 GARDENING, HOME

• Weekly Photo Challenge – Eye Spy a Butterfly’s Eye

  

  The Weekly Photo Challenge – ‘Eye Spy’ – A Butterfly’s eye is a wonderful creation, their spherical compound eyes with almost 360 degree vision are able to... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Wildlife Wednesday – Early Winter Preparations

  

  Over the last month high winds have brought down an ivy clad tree in our lane and many of the standing perennials I leave for sheltering invertebrates and... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Weekly Photo Challenge – Ornate – Hall of the Two Sisters, Alhambra, Spain.

  

  Arch leading to the Sala de dos Hermanas – Hall of the Two Sisters with ornate Stucco decoration The weekly photo challenge – Ornate, reminded me of our early... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Wildlife Wednesday – Great Spotted Woodpeckers

  

  For the last month, we have been visited by a pair of Great Spotted Woodpeckers, the male is larger with a black cap and crimson red rectangle on his nape, the... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Gelli Uchaf, Wales and Noel Kingsbury

  

  Last week we drove across country to Wales, a land of enormously varied and beautiful scenery, spectacular coastlines and Gelli Uchaf, the home and garden of... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Wildlife Wednesday – Beneficial Balance

  

  There’s been a mixed bag of weather during September, the hotter dry days made peering at insects a priority. They are mostly a joy to observe and obliging to... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Wordless Wednesday – Fly Algaric – Amanita Muscaria

  

  Fly algaric Amanita muscaria http://www.kew.org/science-conservation/plants-fungi/amanita-muscaria-fly-agaric Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• In a Vase on Monday – Hidden Scent and Plants for Bees

  

  The glorious and uplifting sunshine we enjoyed last week is due to give way to heavy rain, my family were away for part of the weekend, which in turn gave me... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Wordless Wednesday – Sipping Nectar from Verbena Bonariensis in Late September

  

  Honey Bee on Verbena bonariensis Common Carder on Verbena bonariensis Red Admiral on Verbena bonariensis Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Bird Baths and Cats

  

  We have a new Bird Bath. Juvenile Blue Tits discovering the new bird bath 10 years ago, our youngest daughter rescued a feral Kitten with a badly gashed stomach. Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• GBFD – September and a Gradual Change to Autumn Colour

  

  Its been a while since I reported on foliage in my own garden. In fact 11 months! 3 years ago we planted some new trees, 3 Chanticleer Pears, a mystery Rowan,... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Wordless Wednesday – Autumn Sunshine, Heleniums and Long Borders at Cliveden

  

  Heleniums at Cliveden Cliveden Hot Border Cleome – Cliveden Cliveden Cool Border PS – The mystery Helenium could be one of several plotted on the Cliveden... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Wildlife Wednesday – Summer Pollinators and Others

  

  Its been a while since I was able to take part in Wildlife Wednesday. Our rural internet speed dipped to an all time low and then all but vanished for the... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• Butterfly Bucket List – on Sharpenhoe Clappers

  

  Anna who writes the lovely ‘Transmutational Garden‘ blog is hosting a new meme – Butterfly Bucket List, posting on the 4th Sunday of every month and kindly... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• The Wildlife Trusts and Fancott Meadows

  

  Last Saturday we made our third visit to Fancott Meadows, a Coronation Meadow which is managed by the BCN Wildlife Trust. This time we went along with our... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• GBBD – June Flowers for Bees and Other Pollinators

  

  I rarely post photos of my own garden. I work as a gardener, which means our garden at home takes second fiddle and often has the look of cobbler’s shoes but I... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2015 GARDENING, HOME

• The Gardens of the Alhambra and Generalife, Granada, Spain – Part Two Partal...

  

  Part two. After leaving The Nasrid Palaces in part one on a timed visit we walked through the Partal gardens, Upper Alhambra gardens and headed towards the... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2015 GARDENING, HOME