Is that a fish?

Posted on November 8, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Blue, Bottles, Cat, Clear, Glass, Goldfish, Light, Ornament, Photo, Plants, WindowledgeLeave a comment

A photo of a glass ornament of a cat with a gold fish modeled inside it. I grow lots of plants on our windowledges and also collect bottles so it’s a bit messy I know. The plant is a fern and now it’s getting cooler it’s dropped some of its leaves. I need to clean it up but it’s really huge and I don’t want to damage it. I also like the textures on the clear glass and blue glass bottles. I might paint a still life of it. I like the way the light is illuminating all the glass and the way the cats head is acting like a lens.

Backyard today

Posted on November 3, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cold, Colours, Flowers, Frost, Garden, Gardening, Hanging baskets, Plants, ShelteredLeave a comment

I’m still waiting, on the 3rd November, for my hanging baskets to get knocked off by the frost. October was the fifth wettest since the 19th century. And it was wet, and windy. A couple of ex hurricanes blew over us, the sky stayed battleship grey for a lot of the month. The wind makes our windows whistle and moan in the kitchen if its from the South West, and the noise moves to the front of the house if the wind shifts to the North East. That’s why the plants do well round the back, they are in a little sheltered micro climate. So I’m waiting to see what happens tomorrow… And not just in the garden!

Sunflowers

Posted on October 19, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Facebook, Flowers, Gardening, Instagram, Layout app, Plants, Sunflower, SunnyLeave a comment

Sunflower silhouetted in the bright sunlight of an aurumn day.

From am original photograph taken at Trentham Gardens in 2019. Edited in the Layout app that works with Instagram and Facebook.

Floating in the air, defying gravity.

Ivy

Posted on October 18, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Berries, Christmas, Garden, Gardening, Holly, Ivy, Photo, Plants, Winter, WreathLeave a comment

I like ivy, it covers the ground, grows up trees, makes berries birds can eat. Places where birds can nest where it grows up walls. This is a mixture of plain and variegated varieties. It’s mature because it’s growing berries now. There is a Holly Bush near it which is also making berries. I might even make a wreath for the door when it gets to Christmas.

In front of the house

Posted on October 18, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Colours, Covid, Gardening, House front, In front, Life, Masks, Nasturtiums, Pavement, Plants, Road6 Comments

Nasturtium with varigated leaves and other plants that are in front of the house. The only problem is the litter that blows about outside. Now I wear gloves or pick it up in a plastic bag to dispose of it.

Today I saw several discarded marks just lying on the pavement mixed with the fallen leaves. How horrible that people won’t take care of the place they live in. I hate the way they take no responsibility for their environment.

Our plants out the front are doing well although I’ve seen people through the front window, stopping when walking their dogs, no doubt to pee on the plants! Still I’m glad we grow them…

Hanging basket

Posted on October 17, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bee friendly, Colours, Environment, Flowers, Garden, Gardening, Hanging baskets, Life, Nature, Nursery plants, Plants, ShedLeave a comment

It’s mid October and the baskets just keep flowering. This ones on the garden shed, another sheltered spot. I would recommend ordering them from a small nursery or farm, they generally end up filled with more and different flowers that have matured more by the time you get them. I usually ask for lots of colour and the lady that plants them up will put in lobelia, begonias, fushias, trailing petunias, and other flowers I can’t remember the names of. Then we fill our own baskets with pelagoniums, small sunflowers and trailing tomato plants (this year). I hang baskets one below another. Then set up pots on the wall and the ground. Finally we’ve grown a few, like this one, on the shed. Those have had nasturtium seeds put in them and have given a lovely late flowering display. In all the sadness of this year they have given me great joy.

The back yard, mid october

Posted on October 14, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, Back yard, Colours, Flowers, Frost, Gardening, Growing, Micro climate, Photos, PlantsLeave a comment

Despite the cold, wet weather the flowers in the back yard continue to survive. If we get any bad frosts I think they will go, but the sheer number of them packed together offer shelter to all of them.

So pleased we had the hanging baskets filled by a little farm nursery back in May/June, they have certainly been worth the initial cost. I go outside and am immediately cheered.

Morning glory flower

Posted on October 7, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cold, Flower, Germination, Morning glory, Plant earlier, Plants, Sad, Time, Trumpet shaped flowers, WetLeave a comment

They are just about hanging on, and starting to develop flowers! The rains coming down most days and is starting to soak the soil too much. If we get a frost it’s going to destroy all the plant cells, and then, no more tender plants like these. The thing I’ve learned? Plant the seeds a month earlier, get them warm and germinating and get them out in the sun a month earlier too.

Back yard today

Posted on October 4, 2020October 4, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Back yard, Begonias, Cold, Flowers, Gardening, Microclimate, Plants, Surviving, Wet, WindyLeave a comment

It’s still looking good despite the heavy rain we have been having. At least its meant that the hanging baskets have been getting watered. I think we have a bit of a microclimate so the area doesn’t get as cold as in the main garden, but it does get the sun when it shines in the afternoon. Hopefully everything will keep going for a while longer. The begonias have bee spectacular this year!

Off on his trike

Posted on October 4, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Allotments, Autumn sun, Cycling, Exercise, Gardening, Photos, Plants, Sunny, Trike, Trilby2 Comments

Setting out in the sun to meet a friend on his allotment. I got a message later that one of his wheels has collapsed? Luckily it’s only about a couple of miles away. What you can’t see is that he’s on his sandals! I tried to get him to wear his shoes… Weird! I hope the ground isn’t too wet.

He usually wears a flat cap, but when he went to the allotments last week his friend accidentally put a pickaxe through it (it was on the ground). I do wonder if this is something they should be doing! But gardening and exercise is good for mental health, so I suppose it’s good for him. Meanwhile I’m off to get some college work done.

Mallaband-Brown

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