Garden Update...

We went out for drinks at a friend's house last night.  We returned feeling rather merry, but not too merry to continue the Perseid hunt.  I spotted one over the house, which makes the year's meteor count a grand total of one and a half.  Humph.

I have just spent the morning lugging timber, weeding, and clearing out boxes at my father's house.  During which time I was moaned at for throwing out some packaging, lectured on how to pull up a dandelion, etcetera, etcetera.  And he wonders why I don't like helping him??? 

End result:  I now have three nearly new numnahs (I love that word!!) to find homes for.  I'm not sure what the going rate is for second-hand numnahs.  I think I'll try and flog them for a tenner each at the stables next week.  Failing that, there's e-bay...

Anyway, some garden images.

Favourite plant just now is Geranium Buxton Blue, with its exquisite white centre and veined petals:-

 

A nice plant to get hold of, if you can.  Absolutely trouble-free, and a brilliant addition to the garden at a time of year when everything else is past its best.

 The Accidental Flowerbed's still looking good just now:-

 

The annual poppies have been a great success this year.  The bees and the hoverflies love them - this morning, when I went outside, the Accidental Flowerbed was a docking station for hoverflies.  Loads of the things were hanging out on the poppies, half-asleep:-

 

It's rare to see them sitting still for such an extended length of time!

A nice colour combination now, of cosmos, lavender Munstead, yellow potentilla and the ubiquitus anagallis:-

 

Another happy customer is pictured below, on the globe thistle.  I think it's been a very good year for the bees and the hoverflies, which makes a refreshing change.  They all seem very healthy - hopefully having a flowery refuge in suburbia has helped bloster their population a little in the area:-
 

Friends will, of course, be granted the bigger picture in another post that will be accessible shortly....
 

Garden Update...

We went out for drinks at a friend's house last night.  We returned feeling rather merry, but not too merry to continue the Perseid hunt.  I spotted one over the house, which makes the year's meteor count a grand total of one and a half.  Humph.

I have just spent the morning lugging timber, weeding, and clearing out boxes at my father's house.  During which time I was moaned at for throwing out some packaging, lectured on how to pull up a dandelion, etcetera, etcetera.  And he wonders why I don't like helping him??? 

End result:  I now have three nearly new numnahs (I love that word!!) to find homes for.  I'm not sure what the going rate is for second-hand numnahs.  I think I'll try and flog them for a tenner each at the stables next week.  Failing that, there's e-bay...

Anyway, some garden images.

Favourite plant just now is Geranium Buxton Blue, with its exquisite white centre and veined petals:-

 

A nice plant to get hold of, if you can.  Absolutely trouble-free, and a brilliant addition to the garden at a time of year when everything else is past its best.

 The Accidental Flowerbed's still looking good just now:-

 

The annual poppies have been a great success this year.  The bees and the hoverflies love them - this morning, when I went outside, the Accidental Flowerbed was a docking station for hoverflies.  Loads of the things were hanging out on the poppies, half-asleep:-

 

It's rare to see them sitting still for such an extended length of time!

A nice colour combination now, of cosmos, lavender Munstead, yellow potentilla and the ubiquitus anagallis:-

 

Another happy customer is pictured below, on the globe thistle.  I think it's been a very good year for the bees and the hoverflies, which makes a refreshing change.  They all seem very healthy - hopefully having a flowery refuge in suburbia has helped bloster their population a little in the area:-
 

Friends will, of course, be granted the bigger picture in another post that will be accessible shortly....