Monterey Cypress I believe.
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I but snapdragons (or bunny rabbits as I call them!) every year for our garden. They are a reminder of my grandparents garden. We had some lovely ones this year from Shannon’s called ‘sunset’ very unusual. Unfortunately we haven’t got them anymore & I didn’t save a photo.
It’s not spring yet but has felt like it the last few days, and quite a few flowers and blossom starting now.
Hellebore and bumble bee in the garden - I love hellebores - great for winter flowers.
Crocus and daffodils
Was lovely to see on the sun!
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Amazing. But surely it is spring isn’t it ? This must be spring, or if it isn’t, it certainly feels like it. I have been separing my perpetual spinach and purple sprouting broccoli plants today. They were a bit crammed together through the winter, but now they are really accelerating and need some ‘lebenstraum’ - know what I mean ?
Not quite but it’s coming!
I really must do some more purples sprouting broccoli this year, did some last year but most feel to the pigeons or other animals, one is still going strong though!
I have a lot of plants that i planted out in the autumn of last year. They survived the winter quite well and i am now expecting great things. You have reminded me about the pigeons. I think I will have to take precautionary measures
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I use to always pull up these opium poppies that self seed everywhere, but I leave quite a few now as they produce nice flowers and some pollinators love them.
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Lovely picture that one. The rolling shutter on the wings is also interesting - the ‘slices’ are 16 pixels wide, so your camera probably has a 16-bit data bus for shifting the pixels off. If we knew the exposure time of the picture we could probably guess at how fast the wing was moving.
I’d like to say it was intentional, but just it was not, just a snap with the phone, though I was waiting for their arrival.
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EXIF data gets removed on upload here doesn’t it?
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A quick tip from me! Much as I love our local garden centres, I bought some David Austin roses from the website to augment the three I planted over the last couple of weeks. The garden centre ones were the same price but literally less than half the size of the ones directly from David Austin, and were less well rooted too. I am going to buy direct next time I plan to plant some (though not for a while as they are expensive!)
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Lovely photo, the bee (is it a bee?) looks almost camouflaged!
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thanks, yes it’s some kind of bee- very small though
They may be expensive, but you can definitely tell how great the quality of them are! I don’t know if I could ever go back to mortal non-DA roses now…
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These are the red Dragon Wing Begonias I planted in my balcony troughs this summer, interspersed with spider plants grown from cuttings. I’d love to be able to claim green fingers, but they’re incredibly low-maintenance.
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Still have a few things flowering
Hebe. Most stopped but this is one I grew from cuttings and planted out a few month ago, so it’s flowering for the first time now. The other 5 ones from cuttings I planted out later and no flowers.
Gaillardia
Lavender still just about going, really should cut it back.
Borage self seeded and started flowering recently, much later than others that have already come and gone.
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