Acorns

Posted on August 26, 2020August 26, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acorns, apples, Bushes, Collections, Garden, Gardening, Life, Photo, Plants, Seeds, Trees4 Comments

My hubby keeps collecting seeds and nuts at the moment. His plan is to put them in pots and try and grow them, then pass them on to friends? But what if no-one wants them? I do not need any more trees in our garden. We have two oak saplings already, a twenty five year old walnut tree which is sixty foot high, a willow tree, a pear, two or three apples, a sycamore, a mountain Ash, an Ash tree. Also a eucalyptus, three leylandii, plus others and lots of bushes. But no, he’s not satisfied. The garden is where two houses used to stand, there isn’t enough space for more plants.

Weird plant photos

Posted on August 18, 2020August 18, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Fun, Green, Impossible structures, Indoor plants, Layout app, Oddly alien looking, Photos, Plants, Strange, Weird plant photos, WindowledgeLeave a comment

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A plant on the kitchen windowledge is duplicated in the Layout app. The result seems to be a strange weird alien face, but it’s just a Christmas canvas plant with spiky leaves. This is what I do when I can’t see and go down for a coffee in the early morning!

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Here’s another one. They really do create impossibly strange weird structures.

Anyway, only got four hours sleep. Might treat myself to a nap!

Garden today

Posted on August 14, 2020August 14, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bees, Blueberries, Flowers, Fun, Gardening, Green fingers, Growing, Heat, Life, Nature, Plants, Sun, WaterLeave a comment

Just when I think the plants can’t get bigger we get torrential rain and they grow! And it’s hot, they are happy.

I think our back yard is full. The hanging baskets are pulling the old fence down. But I turn round and my hubby has snuck an Ash tree in! I love it. I hope some of it survives into the autumn. I will continue to post pictures as it grows.

We even had three ripe blueberries today.

Hanging baskets

Posted on August 9, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bright, Colour, Environment, Flowers, Fun, Gardening, Hanging baskets, Nature, Plants, Summer, WeatherLeave a comment

Looking great now they have been well watered. The hot weather is really hard on them. If you look at them they wilt. But it’s worth the effort. Lots of colour and different plants. There are lobelia, petunias, begonias, pelargonium and other flowers in them.

It’s spectacular at this time of year.

Cat in garden

Posted on August 9, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Begonias, Cat, Cat sculpture, Design, Fun, Garden, Life, Plants, SculptureLeave a comment

This is the cat statue I showed on this page yesterday, in situ in the garden. I’m afraid the plants have dried out a bit and wilted in this heat. I might put some new pots in front of the cat.

I think the lilies are being munched by lily beetles. They are big and bright red. They don’t have spots like ladybirds. I’m hoping they don’t do to much damage. You are supposed to squash them but I can’t do that.

Anyway, thanks to my friend again for making Esher cat. He is a real friendly face in the garden.

International cat day

Posted on August 8, 2020August 8, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Art, Blacksmith, Cat, Design, Garden, Garden sculpture, International cat day, Life, Plants, Sculpted Steel, Sculpture, Steel2 Comments

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This is the cat sculpture my friend from Sculpted Steel made for me from a sketch I drew. It’s lovely and she just shared her photo for international cat day. It cost quite a bit but it was worth every penny. It now lives in my garden with plants growing through and round it. I am very grateful to my friend for creating it for me. She is a brilliant blacksmith.

Washing day

Posted on August 7, 2020August 7, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Clothes, Fun, Heat, Hot, Humour, Life, Plants, Poem, Poetry, Shirts, Silly poem, Springs, Trousers, Washing, Water2 Comments

IMG_20200807_211454_760 rusty bedsprings

Slumped by the wall.

Used to support beans growing tall.

A line of washing shades the view

Helping ease the sun’s bright hue.

Plants bathed in heat

Wither and dry

Turning brown

Hope they don’t die.

Above all water of life,

Carried in the clouds

Stopping great strife.

Overall its a British summer.

Bright in parts, in others dimmer.

Some places have vines,

Others marrows,

As the heat of the day

Makes eyes narrow.

So interesting view

Shirts, trousers a few.

Dry in one day.

That’s all I can say.

Friends bean and tomato plants.

Posted on August 7, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Beans, Blogging, Friend, Garden, Gardening, Happy, Life, Plants, Tomatoes, VisitLeave a comment

Visited a friend who has some bean plants growing and some tomato plants.

I was jealous, my tomatoes only have a couple of fruits on them. And we don’t have any beans. But I admire her ability to grow them. It’s good to go out and visit people at a distance. It’s better than sitti g in my house. I still wear a mask even if I’m outside. That made it hard to have a glass of elderflower cordial so I relented because I was thirsty and we kept a good six feet apart. Now I’m back home in the cool. It was 36° C in places today. The hottest August day since 2003, and it’s forecast to get hotter!

Weeds, flowers in the wrong place?

Posted on August 2, 2020August 2, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bees, Blogging, Car park, Flowers, Gardening, Hover flies, Photos, Plants, Pollenators, Random, WeedsLeave a comment

I went out to meet someone and saw a bank of weeds at the end of the carpark. There were some interesting flowers amongst the plants and the bees and hover flies were drinking at them. I recognised Himalayan balsam and Convolvulus, Dock weed and Teasle, Thistles and Ragweed (I think its called). I think it’s amazing how plants can push up through tarmac, live in walls, grow on cliff faces. Life will prevail!

Green man?

Posted on July 27, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Environment, Flowers, Green man, Life, Living, Nature, Plants, Poem, PoetryLeave a comment

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I create, then wither

I grow and then die.

You breathe my air,

you eat my leaves

you take my fruit.

I let you…

But I am green,

I am life

Chlorophyll,

Xanthophyll,

Phloem,

Xylem,

I nourish.

You damage me at your peril.

I am the green man.

Mallaband-Brown

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