White lily

Posted on July 30, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Environment, Garden, Gardening, Life, Lily, Nature, Plant, Random, Thinking, Walk, Walking, What is it?Leave a comment

Another one has flowered, sitting in among the nettles and the convolvulus. There’s monbretia in there too.. What’s its newer name? Crocosmia I think. Its like when Fushias suddenly became Surfinias and Geraniums started being called Pelagoniums to differentiate them from the perennial ones.

I went on a walk on Tuesday and found myself pointing out the names of garden plants to my hubby. I don’t know why. I saw a couple of plants that I didn’t recognise.

What is this. From a distance I thought it was a fushia?

The wooded glade

Posted on July 27, 2020July 27, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Garden, Hedgehog home, Photos, Pond, Setting sun, Summer, Trees, Water plant, Wooded glade4 Comments

Our garden has paths through it now, down to the pond at the bottom. We also seem to have a spring coming up in it. The trees have grown massively because they are so well watered. I Saw a couple of house sparrows picking up bird food on the ground this evening after a long cold day of rain. I went out when it brightened up and took some photos. So good to have a woodland glade in the middle of a city!

Woody cat

Posted on July 25, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Abandoned cat, Blogging, Cared for, Cat, Fun, Garden, Happy, Life, Love, Photos, Rescue catsLeave a comment

The abandoned cat who is virtually ours. He definitely has adopted us. He’s wheedled his way into our lives. He gets fed regularly, sleeps in a bed in a shed, and comes and sits on your lap when he feels like it. I will try and get his microchip altered. His owners went away and left him. He would be in the house, but I have two rescue cats already. I’m getting them vaccinated next week and then we can try and introduce them to each other. Things could get difficult.

I do love him, he’s worked his way into my heart. These photos of him were taken in the garden this afternoon.

Tomato plants no flowers!

Posted on July 25, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Flowers, Fruit, Garden, Gardening, Greenhouses, Life, Not pollenated?, Plants, Shade, Tomato, Why?2 Comments

We put up two little greenhouses for the tomatoes this year. We’ve given them plenty of food and water. It’s a bit shady, not the usual place we put them, and they have grown leafy, but with very few flowers, and they don’t seem to have set. It’s getting too late for tomatoes now. On the other hand the local shop gave us some very withered and dried up small tomato plants yesterday but they have fruit growing on them. Weird… Anyway I guess I’m lucky we had other produce xxx

Tree walk?

Posted on July 25, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Flying, Fun, Garden, Humour, Lead figure, Life, Photo, Poem, Poetry, Tiny figure2 Comments

She went for a walk in the trees.

Climbed up the branches to the twigs

Stood on high in airy splendour.

Caught up in crows feet,

She flew up to the chimney.

Stuck there in old mortar.

Then a Magpie saw her.

A short hop to his nest.

Now she’s unpacked

And admiring the gold and pearls

In his gaff.

Spring again

Posted on July 22, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged apples, Blackberries, Blossom, Bushes, Cherries, Exercise, Fruit, Garden, Gardening, Gooseberries, Pears, Plants, Spring, TreesLeave a comment

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Blossom on the trees turned into leaves and a wonderful crop of cherries.

We also have a lot of pears growing and a few apples. The elderberry Bush is starting to fill with fruit and the blackberries are ripening on their bushes. The only thing I miss is gooseberries. My hubby has eaten them all fresh off the plant!

Yes spring was good this year. Good to think of something other than a virus!

Pears

Posted on July 21, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Food, Fruit, Garden, Gardening, Life, Nature, Pears, Photo, Ripe, TreeLeave a comment

This year we have a good crop of pears on the tree again, the tree almost fell over last year because of the weight of the crop. It now has a post unfer the trunk to support it. The pear cro is already ripening with the skin turning slightly yellow.

Our pears are usually quite big, we collect them in September generally, but they might be ready earlier than that.

With pears they are generally unripe, unripe, unripe, unripe, ripe, mushy. They go from being hard to soft virtually overnight. I’m thinking of poaching some of them. Should be nice.

Green

Posted on July 15, 2020July 15, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Garden, Green, Ideas, Leaves, Musing, Plant, Shady, Thinking2 Comments

Such a calming colour. Green in plants is caused by chlorophyll in their leaves as sunlight converts water and air into sugars and starches.

Green, the colour of the Amazon and other forests and jungles. The colour of growing crops and leaves on flowering plants. Cool and tranquil, shady and soft. Then cactuses spiky, full of fluid, green against the rocks of deserts and hot dry lands.

Green means life, it means various other things too. Green for go, green for someone new to a job, green when you feel ill or queasy. Green seaweed, green on trains, the green walking man light on pedestrian crossings. So many things. Green was a livery for different train services. British rail trains used to be green. Even science fiction has green blooded Vulcans and a character called Green Lantern. Green for different alcoholic and fruit drinks. It’s interesting where you can find it.

What would we do without it.

Back yard view

Posted on July 15, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Back yard, Blogging, Cat, Environment, Flowers, Fun, Garden, Gardening, Hanging baskets, Nature, Plants, Summer, Terraced house2 Comments

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Doing what we always do this time of year. Cram the back yard full of flowers. We have a big patch of land next to the house, but it’s full of trees and shrubs and fruit trees and a couple of small plastic greenhouses with tomatoes. But the back yard is visible from the kitchen and living room and I love a riot of colour. The baskets are mainly from a nursery, but some managed to survive the winter. My hubby even planted an iris in one of the baskets. We’ve put a couple of lilies in the far end so the cat can’t get near them (poisonous to cats).

They will grow and get blousier. It’s amazing that the brackets can hold three baskets in one go. Water the top one and the lower ones get watered too.

I will post more images as they grow.

Two frogs

Posted on July 13, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Amphibians, Environment, Fish, Frogs, Fun, Garden, Humour, Life, Nature, Pond, Wild life garden2 Comments

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Hubby often goes down to the pond at night to look at the fish and feed them. The pond is deep so you can’t see them easily in the daylight. He has got a few minnows and goldfish in there. But over the last couple of nights he’s disturbed a frog that plopped into the centre of the pond. Tonight when he went out two matching frogs were looking back at him from either side of the pool.

So I asked him which one he’d kissed?

Lol.

Mallaband-Brown

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