Awful weather - typical Brits talk

wort

A neighbour was digging up huge shrubs and almost trees! I was helping out by getting them into tubs , as they are moving. I managed to get 2 for spaces I have, so need to sort those out . Needed a rest day yesterday!! With copious amounts of deep heat. I also have a silver birch, I did wonder where the little brown bit came from the stick in the cats fur😬

Farway

A dry day for once but soggy out. Have to stay inside though because it's MOT day and don't want to miss any garage calls

Today's photo is of my new best fiends [sic], newly hatched cabbage white caterpillars on the trailing nasturtiums getting their teeth sharpened before going to work on the nasturtiums which are taking over the garden anyway

I assume birds & wasps eat caterpillars sometimes? Anyway it's all nature

goldfinches

Lovely photo F. Here's my insectophile contribution.



I spotted this particular plant earlier this week when it was also humming with insects and when I came back yesterday it was far and away the most popular of the several varieties of echinops in the garden that are all currently in full flower.

This is the plant label - I was rather surprised to see that it originates from Ethiopia, I had assumed that a plant that so many insects were attracted to would be native to an area quite nearby.

Farway

Cracking photo GF, zoom lens or brave & close up?

Sunny day here, but not a gardening one because I have to go out to a funeral later and won't have time before or after to get stuck into something, we all know how garden jobs tend to blend into one another

I hope this doesn't trigger too much giggling at the back but I'm concerned about my plums , they are starting to colour up now but are purple at the top and green at bottom. I don't remember them doing that last year so it's more fingers crossed

pink_poppy

Has Dave lost his posting privileges again?? 😕

I’m not really sure what to say about your plums, Farway 😳

Fab photos, as always, although the caterpillar one gave me the creeps 🤢

Dry and sunny here today 😎

phoebe1989seb

He has, sadly, Poppy ☹️☹️☹️ Two weeks duration, so not permanent thankfully 😃

More Great pics there, Farway and GF 😄

Sunny here too, so trying to catch up with weeding in our jungley area that has been overrun with wild strawberries, creeping buttercup and nettles....

Hoping to get the crambe cordifolia x 3 in there later. These were intended for the white bed but have concluded they'll be too tall, so the jungle it is!

Farway

it was a scorcher yesterday but cooler this morning, I may get out later & tie in the new blackberry shoots and pick the bl))dy snails off my runners, I'm over run with them now, bold as brass and in broad daylight

On a brighter note I picked one of the self sown cherry tomatoes yesterday, fully ripe if a bit sharp tasting but being cross breed not surprising. I have Shirley & Tumbling tom coming on fast, sometime next week at a guess

This photo is on a buddlia I stuck in as hardwood cutting on waste patch near my garage. A spot of my self styled Guerrilla Gardening

After a few years this buddlia is now well over ten feet high, full of bees & smells lovely as one gets near.

The parent of this buddlia came from a supermarket car park when a bit fell off as I parked

phoebe1989seb

Lovely butterfly and buddleia, Farway 😃

Tipping it down here and quite windy, so glad I got the crambe cordifolia plants in yesterday as it certainly isn't gardening weather today.....

Farway

Bit damp here this morning, just in the air nothing specific

At last I managed to get out & tie in the blackberry, and found enough ripe ones to add to some of last years frozen apples to make a crumble later in the day

I checked the runners while I was in the garden, there are even some beans on them but oh my, the snails have really ruined them, removed the snails i saw but I expect another lot will be along shortly

As I was opening the front curtains this morning I spotted an enormous snail on the sunflower I'm growing so rushed out sharpish & gave him a flying lesson. I think I'll top up the pellets around the sunflower base later on today, I would like the SF to at least open before it's consumed

wort

Amazing photo Farway, and I feel your pain with the 🐌 snails ! 

I managed a bit of lawn edging, and weeding in the brick edge of lawn. I had cut grass day before, and Bil came and scarified and area I’d put feed and weed on ,then applied some seed.
nice day so will put washing out, and check if I’ve any paint left to do the garage door.