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………..and the bee!
The Spider and the Fly,
by Mary Howitt. 1828.
“Will you walk into my parlour?” said the Spider to the Fly.
09 Wednesday Oct 2019
Posted in Our Garden@19, Photography, The Life of Brian., Wildlife
Category Archives: Wildlife
Plant of the month.
01 Tuesday Oct 2019
Posted in Gardening, Our Garden@19, Plantlife, Wildlife
Asters, Michaelmas Daisies or Symphyotrichum, as some of them have now been renamed, are one of the autumn garden flowers I have always loved to see. This is probably because of the wonderful stand that grew in my parents and grandparents gardens.
There are many to choose from, for October’s plant of the month, in Our Garden@19.
I have selected Symphyotrichum ‘Little Carlow’, it has RHS AGM status and is generally disease-free. With its masses of small blue flowers and yellow centres, I think, it is a good companion with Solidago Fireworks.
It will self seed around the garden, although it will not come true, it can however be propagated by division, preferably in the spring.
With it being a simple flower it is popular with the pollinators.
Do you have a favourite October flower?
Plant of the month.
13 Saturday Jul 2019
Posted in Gardening, Our Garden@19, Plantlife, Wildlife
Choosing a plant of the month at this time of year is a little like choosing your favourite child. Daucus carota, the wild annual carrot, flowering in the blue border mainly from self sown plants is my choice. I grew it two years ago from seed, there was none in the garden last year, now this year…
A simple drought tolerant plant, easy and cheap to grow, used by herbalists, loved by the pollinators and ideal for wildlife friendly gardening.
Do you currently have a favourite flower?
There’s a Buzz in the air!
01 Wednesday May 2019
Posted in General Interest, Our Garden@19, Plantlife, Wildlife
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Prunus serrula is an all year round favourite tree in Our Garden@19. However at this time of year it is also popular with the bees, especially the honey bees. The flowers are quite small and insignificant compared to the bark. Standing under the canopy when in flower it is a buzz with bees.
You will need full volume to capture some of the sound, because the majority of the bees working in the top of the tree. I guess the nectar flow is greater there early in the morning, before the sun penetrates the canopy.
A friend sent this to me, I thought it was so appropriate I have now added it.
“Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cowslip’s bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat’s back I do fly
After summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.”
― William Shakespeare.
Is anything creating a buzz in your garden?
