Summer Ran Dry...

Don't forget to upload your Big Butterfly Count results by the end of August, there is still time to take part, the count runs until the 12th of August. More details on YouTube here ~ Big Butterfly Count

Please take part in this year's RSPB Swift survey ~ details here. They are on the amber list and numbers are plummeting in the UK.


Too hot to garden and ground baked solid, so here's some photos instead from when the summer ran dry...

french beans

painted lady

red admiral

painted lady

carrots

'lawn'

Ewok?

onions drying

long-tailed tit

long-tailed tits in tree canopy

June in the garden

Love in the mist and patio

June border

Grapevine tamed

New bird table and vegetable boxes

Potting on.. plants for the borders by the new fence

rose and a shady corner

Exhibition coming up...

Landscapes in

Oil & Watercolour

Patricia Herlihy

26th May to 2nd June 2018
11.00am - 3.00pm

in the almshouses at

St Margaret's Chapel &
Royal Magdalene Almshouses

Magdalene Street, Glastonbury, Somerset

Waiting for Sunshine...

After such a hot early Bank Holiday, this May is all about trying to get on top of the weeds and seedlings. Planters now have onions, carrots, climbing french beans and strawberries. New fences are settling in, still some building work to be completed later in the summer. If last year was all about cutting back, clearing, repairing and reclaiming space and light in the garden; this year is the year of organising and planning...

forget-me-knot & geum

Cranesbill

Aquilegia

climbing rose & willow trellis

Herb Robert,

Hosta and lavender leaves

Box hedge knitting together

(note to self ~ pheasant eye Narcissus need forget-me-knot to grow through next year!)

Osteospermum and ground nettle

Scabious

Damage to irises from slugs and snails

Green border

top of the wall plants

Spring Garden Now...

It's always the way, the sunshine arrives and something manages to get in the way of a good bit of gardening... this time, I only have myself to blame, a sprained ankle is of no use when there's grass to mow and weeds to pull! Let's hope I'm up and running soon or it will be another year of taming a jungle again.

Bonsai happy 

Pollarded trees rejuvenating

Onions have now shot up in sudden warm weather...

Lots of soft green shoots

Lovely new fence to show off plants against

Blue sky days...

Double-barrelled water but...

Long tailed tit