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Post by roofgardener on Feb 9, 2020 12:45:55 GMT
that's all looking great roofgardener all ready for the new gardening season, I have to say I love the last area you showed, I could just see lots of ferns and hostas there  ROFL.. actually, it's full of gravel  There ARE plants there, but it's all self-set stuff that nobody knows the names of I will try and post more detailed photographs of it... perhaps you could identify them ? 
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Post by grindle on Feb 9, 2020 15:17:39 GMT
would love to have a go  |
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Post by SueA on Feb 10, 2020 9:20:48 GMT
It looks very neat & tidy now roofgardener, hope nothing blew away in the wind yesterday! Very professional video too & you've found a little film star in that dunnock. |
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Post by Cherry on Feb 10, 2020 10:08:27 GMT
Well you have certainly learnt how to deal with strong winds in the past roofgardener, so I hope the tunnel is ok. The weather, birds and wildlife will be quite different at base level. |
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Post by ladybird on Feb 12, 2020 20:45:01 GMT
loved the video roofy, its nice to everything organised and its nice to see what you look like I hope you didn't put that box box in a skip  freecycle it , for someone somewhere its just what they are looking for. |
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Post by roofgardener on Feb 13, 2020 11:55:21 GMT
loved the video roofy, its nice to everything organised and its nice to see what you look like I hope you didn't put that box box in a skip freecycle it , for someone somewhere its just what they are looking for. Funnily enough, my landlady has bagged it
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Post by roofgardener on Feb 13, 2020 12:00:54 GMT
Well you have certainly learnt how to deal with strong winds in the past roofgardener, so I hope the tunnel is ok. The weather, birds and wildlife will be quite different at base level. Very true Cherry. I've already become fascinated with the birds, something that I never bothered with in the old Roofgarden. I'v got to china troughs for bird food. One for coarse seeds for the wood pidgeons, and the other with smaller stuff for the sparrows and robins. (special fine-grained seeds, sultanas, fat pellets, meal worms, bread, and things like chicken and fish skins and chips n' tha' ). I've had house sparrows and robins, wood pidgeons and - more recently - magpies. Also Starlings, but not at the moment.
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Post by roofgardener on Feb 16, 2020 9:04:01 GMT
Important update:
Following the storm last night, Kneeton Road (the road outside my cottage) has now been renamed Kneeton Brook !
This has improved the view from my kitchen window no end ! I can now sit sipping tea, and watch ducks and small boats go past !
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Post by roofgardener on Feb 16, 2020 9:07:41 GMT
Well, I was a little bored yesterday afternoon, sitting in my Polytunnel in case it tried to blow away. So I've planted about 10 Begonia corms 'wot I bought in 2018. No idea if they'll germinate. I've also planted another 12 onion seeds. My miniature daffodils have opened up, and are looking very pretty. I've also got some Primroses and some hyacynths emerging. Along with a load of weeds. Grrr...... Oh.. and the helibore has sprouted some flowers. It's non-stop here at the Cottage ! Sadly, I left my video camera - and my mobile phone - at work on Friday, so I don't have any photographs of the Tidy Zone for grindle to identify the flora.. but I WILL get around to this early next week. |
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Post by roofgardener on Mar 4, 2020 12:46:31 GMT
Yay - the birds have returned.
I've had a solitary robin, a pair of blackbirds, and a wood pigeon that have kept me company over winter. But thismorning a couple of house sparrows came down to the feeding table, along with a squabble of starlings.
I guess they've migrated back to the UK ?
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Post by roofgardener on Mar 10, 2020 13:44:26 GMT
BIG FAT FROG !!! I've got a HUGE obese frog in my pond It actually looks unhealthy. I'm sure frogs aren't supposed to be THAT fat !!! |
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Post by ladybird on Mar 10, 2020 21:10:41 GMT
BIG FAT FROG !!! I've got a HUGE obese frog in my pond It actually looks unhealthy. I'm sure frogs aren't supposed to be THAT fat !!! Roofy maybe its a toad ?
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Post by SueA on Mar 11, 2020 9:09:56 GMT
It could be a female frog full of eggs Roofy, they do get enormous, the one I saw mating in the pond here a few weeks ago looked like she'd been blown up with a bicycle pump! You may notice some frogspawn appearing in the pond soon. |
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Post by roofgardener on Mar 13, 2020 15:32:09 GMT
BIG FAT FROG !!! I've got a HUGE obese frog in my pond It actually looks unhealthy. I'm sure frogs aren't supposed to be THAT fat !!! Roofy maybe its a toad ? I guess it COULD be ladybird ? But I didn't think toads lurked at the bottom of ponds ?
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Post by roofgardener on Mar 13, 2020 15:33:38 GMT
It could be a female frog full of eggs Roofy, they do get enormous, the one I saw mating in the pond here a few weeks ago looked like she'd been blown up with a bicycle pump! You may notice some frogspawn appearing in the pond soon. Hmm.. perhaps SueA. I guess I'd need a male frog for that to be of any use ?
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freecycle it , for someone somewhere its just what they are looking for.
