Our Gardens

Yes, I hope they help to spread the seeds! Maybe it was them who sowed the seeds in the first place? Someone has also been planting hazel nuts as I have several little trees popping up around the garden. Woodmice are my number one suspects again. Sometimes I come across their little midden piles when I move something; empty split wild cherry stones, empty hazelnut shells with a hole drilled in them, empty snail shells again with a hole drilled in them...
 
So all the rain / humid weather has made the weeds (grass) grow really quickly! The bit of sunshine we've had seems to be perking up my plantpots too. My afternoon job will be to go out and see what damage all the rain has caused!
 
We filled my brown bin, and then one neighbour let us fill her brown bin, and then we kind of nicked the brown bin from next door because it gets emptied on Thursday, they're not living there at the moment anyway, and we had enough garden debris to fill a third bin. All I did was manoeuvre two of the bins down towards the collection point and according to my muscles I've been competing in a decathlon lol. Those things were heavy.

Now that the shed's gone and we can see the back more clearly, those stone walls are going to have to come out near the tree. Possibly that brick wall too although it's in much better condition, but if I can clear it out back there I might have somewhere to keep the bins behind that bush on the left because it's staying. It needs trimmed back, but it's staying.
 
What eejit picks up nettles with their bare hands? Oh, wait, right. Oops. The last of my neighbours with a brown bin let me dunk more sticks and twigs and, ahem, nettles, into hers too, so that's now four bins worth of garden stuff to be emptied tomorrow. I can't decide if that's funny or embarrassing. Or both.
 
Lorcan said:
What eejit picks up nettles with their bare hands? Oh, wait, right. Oops. The last of my neighbours with a brown bin let me dunk more sticks and twigs and, ahem, nettles, into hers too, so that's now four bins worth of garden stuff to be emptied tomorrow. I can't decide if that's funny or embarrassing. Or both.
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Great job looks really tidy!
 
I can take no credit, other than being a source of snarky conversation most of the afternoon. And while maintenance was doing the garden a team from United Utilities turned up because my drains were playing up again over the weekend. I tested it to be sure - full flush in the toilet (clean water, thankfully) and I heard it flush into the kitchen 😂 It'd been fine earlier that morning, using the washing machine was apparently more than it could cope with. They cleared a blockage between my house and next door heading towards the main line, and then blockage near the main line but away from my house. They could be connected, they could be independent of each other, they have no idea, but both are now cleared. Just like the garden, lol.
 
Lorcan said:
I can take no credit, other than being a source of snarky conversation most of the afternoon. And while maintenance was doing the garden a team from United Utilities turned up because my drains were playing up again over the weekend. I tested it to be sure - full flush in the toilet (clean water, thankfully) and I heard it flush into the kitchen 😂 It'd been fine earlier that morning, using the washing machine was apparently more than it could cope with. They cleared a blockage between my house and next door heading towards the main line, and then blockage near the main line but away from my house. They could be connected, they could be independent of each other, they have no idea, but both are now cleared. Just like the garden, lol.
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GlD you got both sorted at once 😆
 
Qualcast&Flymo said:
That looks like another Jersey Tiger moth, like @GPTV posted last month 👍
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Well spotted :D
I seen another one of those today too @Betsy. They do look very orange when they're flying :)

I seen an insect this morning that looked a bit like a hornet flying, when it landed it was a hornet mimic hoverfly, think I've only seen a couple before.

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I found this dinky little snail on the garden drainpipe. 🐌
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I found these two caterpillars... Possibly elephant hawk moths, but they're only small & still green, they were tucking in to a willowherb plant.
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A shield bug
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My little bobbin robin with some of his feathers on his head still missing:(
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Meadow brown butterfly
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Some amazing camouflage by a red admiral butterfly in the garden today
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Oh & my figs have done really well this year... I've got there before the birds & wasps... Mostly :))
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GPTV said:
I found these two caterpillars... Possibly elephant hawk moths, but they're only small & still green, they were tucking in to a willowherb plant.
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A shield bug
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My little bobbin robin with some of his feathers on his head still missing:(
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Meadow brown butterfly
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Some amazing camouflage by a red admiral butterfly in the garden today
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Wow amazing. Love the little Robin still in moult. Those caterpillars are beautiful
 
Qualcast&Flymo said:
The piggies might enjoy the fresh leaves ... :D
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Yes, I was never too hopeful about the cobs forming but was hoping for tall, lush, green plants for the piggies to eat but they are only about 2' tall and starting to turn yellow🤣 Looking nothing like the fields of maze round here🤣 Ii will "harvest" what i can!
 
There are fairies at the bottom of my garden!

Well a little fairy house anyway

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It was under a birch tree, which is a common place to find them. That was at the weekend, today there are also 4 which have popped up close to the house under a Holm oak, which is rather more unusual I believe 😀
 
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