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Post by grindle on Mar 10, 2015 17:51:37 GMT
saw my first butterfly and bees today  |
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Post by daitheplant on Mar 10, 2015 20:30:45 GMT
Wasps also kill aphids.  Lots of honey bees in today`s garden number 2.  It does help that they have 2 hives though.  |
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Post by SueA on Mar 10, 2015 21:53:55 GMT
I saw the first small tortoiseshell butterfly here today as well grindle & a few more bees but none of them stopped longed enough to have their photo taken! |
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Post by sweetpea on Mar 10, 2015 23:07:35 GMT
Sorry to correct you dianthus but wasps cannot break the skin of any fruit. It is the birds that do the initial damage and the wasps then take advantage. So now you know or they only have to get cracked by the wind, rain or very dry/ very wet episodes, sweetpea. Can't always blame the birds..... except those toerag magpies that live 40ft from my garden!!  Magpies! MAGPIES! You should be so lucky. Look what I have in my garden:  |
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Post by dianthus on Mar 11, 2015 0:10:21 GMT
your plot is looking a bit scrubby, sweetpea.  |
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Post by sweetpea on Mar 11, 2015 0:16:54 GMT
your plot is looking a bit scrubby, sweetpea. Not really. That is old pic. Can't show you present state as using tablet atm not the desk top Ps the ostrich has legged it well he would leg it as unable to fly |
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Post by sweetpea on Mar 11, 2015 18:51:28 GMT
dianthus here is a fairly recent pic of part of my garden minus ostrich (cat scared it away) not too scrubby for you I hope leaves ready for hoovering up with lawnmower 
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Post by dianthus on Mar 11, 2015 19:45:41 GMT
That looks lovely sweetpea
Now that is what you call a long garden!! Is there a veg plot at the far end? |
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Post by daitheplant on Mar 11, 2015 20:31:12 GMT
That looks lovely sweetpea
Now that is what you call a long garden!! Is there a veg plot at the far end? Don`t be daft, that`s the Ostrich paddock.  Jim only keeps the poor Ostrich because the plumage makes superb paintbrushes. Plus he still uses a quill. |
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Post by dianthus on Mar 11, 2015 21:05:50 GMT
That looks lovely sweetpea
Now that is what you call a long garden!! Is there a veg plot at the far end? Don`t be daft, that`s the Ostrich paddock. Jim only keeps the poor Ostrich because the plumage makes superb paintbrushes. Plus he still uses a quill. As you are older than me, daitheplant, you should know that quills are made with goose feathers! |
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Post by daitheplant on Mar 11, 2015 21:13:53 GMT
Don`t be daft, that`s the Ostrich paddock. Jim only keeps the poor Ostrich because the plumage makes superb paintbrushes. Plus he still uses a quill. As you are older than me, daitheplant, you should know that quills are made with goose feathers! Sorry, dianthus, I am only in my early thirties, I have just had a hard life.  My granny told me about quill pens and she told me Ostrich feathers last longer because they are longer.  |
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Post by dianthus on Mar 11, 2015 22:33:38 GMT
As you are older than me, daitheplant, you should know that quills are made with goose feathers! Sorry, dianthus, I am only in my early thirties, I have just had a hard life. My granny told me about quill pens and she told me Ostrich feathers last longer because they are longer. You said you were 64 last week.... looks like you are already on the slippery slope of old age, dai!
Me thinks goose feathers were more commonplace in Britain, especially before Stanley found Livingstone in Africa!
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Post by sweetpea on Mar 11, 2015 22:51:01 GMT
That looks lovely sweetpea
Now that is what you call a long garden!! Is there a veg plot at the far end? Have some space for veg by the greenhouse which you can just see top of in pic. Do have other areas as well as this but some of the area not best suited for veg. Will be growing mainly salad stuff like beetroot, radish, lettuce, tomatoes etc. plus runner beans. |
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Post by daitheplant on Mar 12, 2015 21:19:00 GMT
Sorry, dianthus, I am only in my early thirties, I have just had a hard life. My granny told me about quill pens and she told me Ostrich feathers last longer because they are longer. You said you were 64 last week.... looks like you are already on the slippery slope of old age, dai!
Me thinks goose feathers were more commonplace in Britain, especially before Stanley found Livingstone in Africa!
Would that be Stanley Laurel and Ken Livingstone then dianthus? |
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Post by dianthus on Mar 12, 2015 23:25:52 GMT
You said you were 64 last week.... looks like you are already on the slippery slope of old age, dai!
Me thinks goose feathers were more commonplace in Britain, especially before Stanley found Livingstone in Africa!
Would that be Stanley Laurel and Ken Livingstone then dianthus? No, Dai..... it was that other famous double act wearing pith helmets! |
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Lots of honey bees in today`s garden number 2. 
It does help that they have 2 hives though. 
Jim only keeps the poor Ostrich because the plumage makes superb paintbrushes. Plus he still uses a quill. 
My granny told me about quill pens and she told me Ostrich feathers last longer because they are longer. 
Sept 6, 2018 17:58:08 GMT