What’s happening in your garden today?

[White-Noise]

All the young sparrows and tits have been following their parents round being fed this week. It's been great to watch with the odd turf war thrown in. No casualties thankfully.

[RC1807]

RC1807 said:

Bird box I put up a couple of months ago on the shed wall now has nesting great tits inside.
There’s a lot of tweeting going on.

They've flown the nest.

[Turtle Shed]

Today and every day, this lovely little fella comes along for dinner.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Turtle Shed said:

Today and every day, this lovely little fella comes along for dinner.

Lovely.

[Chicken Chaser]

Alliums late in their display




Although we're not on acid soils, I cover this with ericaceous every year and it does well. It's 10 years old now and last year when I forgot to add mulch it didn't flower. Back this year with a lot of flowers.


This Ceanothus was a stick when we moved in, it looked dead. 10 years on and it's over 10ft high.



Various Clematis










After a late start, the warm and wet weather has really pushed things along. I've got a couple of victims of the wet winter, a Viburnum which looks pretty sick in an area where it is heavy clay and gets little sun. I'll probably have to replace it.

[thepritch]

Nothing much is happening in our garden today as we’re away for a few days. The grass has been growing like crazy and after a short cut last Sunday it looked great. I’m dreading returning Monday as it’ll be mess again.

So much to do in the garden, and it needs quite a cut back as we missed a few key jobs last year. Trouble is part of the garden is wild, but it now needs some managing and tlc, so my garden work area has effectively doubled in size.

[FlossyThePig]

Rain stopped play.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

I've cut my grass today after a wet week. First strawberry of the season too.

[XF-Andy]

Few pics from our family holiday home. Semi wild as not lived in permanently.
I’m not a flower person so apart from the poppies which have grown here wild for decades I couldn’t tell you the names.

Edited by XF-Andy on Saturday 25th May 15:03

[C n C]

Quite a few pictures from today - click on any for a higher res version.

Finally got round to getting the grass cut (view from the raised patio):

G1 by conradsphotos, on Flickr


Cherry Laurel is flowering well this year.

G4 by conradsphotos, on Flickr


Hope to get a few fruits later on - apples, pears, plums, and figs.

G9 by conradsphotos, on Flickr
G7 by conradsphotos, on Flickr
G2 by conradsphotos, on Flickr
G6 by conradsphotos, on Flickr

A particularly velvet like rose a friend gave my wife:
G3 by conradsphotos, on Flickr

Gazania
G5 by conradsphotos, on Flickr

Climbing rose
G10 by conradsphotos, on Flickr

A few new additions to a border near a new fence:
Acer palmatum Orange Dream
Clematis Winter Beauty - Evergreen
Fragrant Evergreen Star Jasmin
G11 by conradsphotos, on Flickr

Edited by C n C on Saturday 25th May 18:35

[The Three D Mucketeer]

I've only just taken my Gazanias grown from seed out of the Greenhouse to harden off
And only TWO Victoria Plums have set ....
There is a North / South divide

[pinchmeimdreamin]

Turtle Shed said:

Today and every day, this lovely little fella comes along for dinner.

We have a a few come to visit most nights, Try Calciworms they love them and they are good for them.
packed with Calcium

[Chicken Chaser]

Would love a hedgehog. We've had one before but it was before our extension. They have to be sharper now to know where to get into the garden but there is access...

[Turtle Shed]

pinchmeimdreamin said:

Turtle Shed said:

Today and every day, this lovely little fella comes along for dinner.

We have a a few come to visit most nights, Try Calciworms they love them and they are good for them.
packed with Calcium

I will try calciworms.

Good news is that we've actually got two hedgehogs coming for dinner each night, one clearly bigger than the other so hopefully a mating pair. We've built a decent house too, might get used.

Your picture in broad daylight surprises me, I thought only ones that were poorly ventured out during the day.

[pinchmeimdreamin]

Turtle Shed said:

pinchmeimdreamin said:

Turtle Shed said:

Today and every day, this lovely little fella comes along for dinner.

We have a a few come to visit most nights, Try Calciworms they love them and they are good for them.
packed with Calcium

I will try calciworms.

Good news is that we've actually got two hedgehogs coming for dinner each night, one clearly bigger than the other so hopefully a mating pair. We've built a decent house too, might get used.

Your picture in broad daylight surprises me, I thought only ones that were poorly ventured out during the day.

It surprised us too ( although it was 8.30pm )
We have built a few houses in the garden now and have cameras covering them so get lots of night videos so to see him in daylight shocked us. ( he’s definitely not poorly just a greedy sod )

[DoubleSix]

I would love to plant some foxgloves but have been warned off them as we have cats. Am I being overcautious?

[RichB]

DoubleSix said:

I would love to plant some foxgloves but have been warned off them as we have cats. Am I being overcautious?

Of course you are. Cats have evolved over the millennia and like all animals they don't eat poisonous plants and secondly there are probably foxgloves somewhere in neighboring gardens which your cats, demonstrably, haven't eaten. So you, the foxgloves and the cats will be fine.

[otolith]

Got back to my house having been away for a while and the plants I put in the troughs in the front garden are dry as a bone and half of them are dead. Someone has turned off the tap for the watering system. I suspect the interfering old bat next door. fking infuriating.

[Patio]

Currently being rained on

[DoubleSix]

RichB said:

DoubleSix said:

I would love to plant some foxgloves but have been warned off them as we have cats. Am I being overcautious?

Of course you are. Cats have evolved over the millennia and like all animals they don't eat poisonous plants and secondly there are probably foxgloves somewhere in neighboring gardens which your cats, demonstrably, haven't eaten. So you, the foxgloves and the cats will be fine.

I read it more the case that they rub up against them unwittingly, then lick their fur when cleaning… i accept the neighbourhood is not littered with dead cats but OH would not function if i killed her cat.