6 years ago
About Me
- A wildlife gardener
- In 1990, as we were driving through a little village, I noticed a quaint old barn with a corrugated roof, and a newly-built house adjacent to it. They were standing on a large plot of land, full of pernicious weeds - a corner of a farmer's field, in fact. Then we saw the "For Sale" sign. Four months later we moved in and decided to create a garden for wildlife. contact me
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Bringing Out My Dead (But Maybe They're Not Dead?) - Ever since I read Kristin Green's "Down to earth - bring out your dead" post, I've had Monty Python quotes running around in my head... which is never real...
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Wieder im Garten / In my garden again - Diesen Winter habe ich Gartenthemen für ein paar Monate „vergessen“….ganz bewusst, nachdem sich letztes Jahr eine gewisse Gartenmüdigkeit bemerkbar machte....8 years ago
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A Time For New Adventures........ - We've been in Florida for a month now and just love it here. On our road trip I got to stop in VA and meet a friend of mine, have dinner together and e...
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The Hunting of the Salad - Getting my salad together for February was quite an ordeal after that prolonged spell of heavy frost. Gone were most of the plants that so amply provided m...
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Dashing through no snow - Excuse the lack of posting; as forecast, it has been a *busy* couple of weeks. I did manage to keep up with my Advent spin but for the very last one on Ch...
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Creative Clothes Storage Rack Sliding Drawer Folding Board Simple Folder Bookshelf Multi-function Household Children Storage - [image: Creative Clothes Storage Rack Sliding Drawer Folding Board Simple Folder Bookshelf Multi-function Household Children Storage] Best Chance for Crea...4 years ago
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World Egg Day 2019 - It’s World Egg Day today so we are starting the day here at farmingfriends.com with an egg for breakfast. World Egg Day was first established in 1996 and w...5 years ago
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Чем полезна горчица? - Практически у каждого из нас на столе имеется на столе во время трапезы соус из горчицы. Она прекрасно дополняет различные блюда и дарит им приятную остр...8 years ago
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Alle desse dagar... - November kom og gjekk. Dagane er korte i november, ein må ta vare på dei solstrålene ein får. Låg vintersol inn i stova. Inne blømer novemberkakt...
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What shall I name it? - After what seems like eternity, I think I am back into this wonderful blogging world. I was touched when many people pinged me in my gmail asking me as to...
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It takes two to tango! - You know that life is chugging back to its wonderful old leisurely pace when things start happening the way they used to happen. Finally I have been abl...
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Daftar Kumpulan Kata Kata Paling di Cari - Dalam zaman moden seperti sekarang, sebagai tambahan kepada udara, makanan, air, dan juga elemen yang paling penting dalam sesebuah alat, kehidupan seorang...8 years ago
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Jardinmiranda is moving to wyewatch.com - After 12 wonderful years of living in rural Brittany, we returned to the UK in February 2016 to a cottage in the Wye Valley near Hay on Wye. My blog of ...
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Happy Birthday Scott - Make a video - it's fun, easy and free! www.onetruemedia.com It's a cold damp rainy day today. Wishing Scott a most fabulous birthday. Blessings and much ...13 years ago
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The Art of Beautiful Tables - I've always been a huge fangirl of everything Victoria publishes ~ magazines and books ~ so perhaps that makes me a biased reviewer? However, this is the 1...1 year ago
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Opening the Labyrinth - *The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month. *—Henry Van Dyke...
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Beauty and Sadness - There was nothing I could do to save it. The Hawk had a hold of it with repeated squeezing. One last breath and the bird lay lifeless. *Cooper Hawk* ...
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Z remembers the house - er, hotel - where she was born - A friend said that blogging with Blogger is awkward on a Mac, so I thought I'd have a go; though in fact, she uses an iPad and I'm on the desktop. The des...
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April hedgehog visitors & videos - April 2022 has been, to date, THE best hedgehog watching via the garden cameras in all my time blogging! What a very special gardenwatching month this ha...2 years ago
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Thanks Central Texas Gardener - Thank you, Central Texas Gardener, for including my Plant Marker Project in this week's program.
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Happy Feet Full Movie Movie2k - [image: Happy Feet]Watch Happy Feet Full Movie Streaming Online Duration 108 minutes and broadcast on 2006-11-17 MPAA rating is 362. - *Film Release Da...10 years ago
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AUTUMN DINNER ~ ROASTED SAGE SPAGHETTI SQUASH With GUYERE, SAUTÉED FRESH GARLIC, PARSLEY and TOASTED PINE NUTS - *“Welcome sweet November, the season of senses and my favorite month of all.” * *― Gregory F. Lenz* *November Sunset (Hubbard Lake, MI)* *ROASTED ...
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I Can Relate - Somebody else posted this, but I could relate to almost all of these...thought you all might get a kick out of it too, enjoy! 1. More often than not, wh...15 years ago
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Cool and misty morning - I also raised my face to the mist this morning. I long for rain. The bees came out. I watched them in the morning glories. Bee bottoms make me giggle. I e...
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Merry Christmas 2019 - I am sorry I have not blogged for ages, I have been 'up north' looking after my mum. She had a fall in August and deteriorated rather rapidly so we ended u...5 years ago
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Honoring Veterans' Day with a Poem: 'Mind the Music and the Step' - - [image: Veterans Day, Democracy, Worth Fighting For, George O. Carlson, Harold Elms, Allan Isbell, Burt Isbell, Laurence Isbell, Gary Isbell,...
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Art Journal Advent December 9-16 ... - December 16 *authentic* Included a quote I love on this page. "While everyone else chooses validation, prioritize your purpose. While everyone else chase...
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24 comments:
Thank you so much for the tour of your garden...exactly what I would aspire to if I had more space. Enjoy your paradise as I enjoy mine.
Welcome, Ruth. This is the time when the nectar borders and the ponds bring colour, contrasting with the gentler tones of the spring bulbs, and the wildlife comes to our garden. I wanted to share some of it with all my blogging friends.
... heavenly - your cats are doing just what I'd want to do, what a gorgeous spot to nap and stretch whilst enjoying the birdsong and breathe in the garden - is there a large clump of catnip near the marmalade cat? didn't make any movement as you wandered by *!*
Hello again, bimbimbie! Jaffa, was snoozing on the woolly carpet thyme, thymus pseudolanuginosus. It's beautifully soft and highly scented. On balmy summer evenings he sometimes prefers to sleep outside, lying on this thyme...
Fantastic WLG.....you must have a lot of cups to make tea for that choir............ did they follow you around ?. he he
Sigh, that movie was far too short! :-) Thanks it was lovely to see your garden in action.
Your kittycats look blissfully happy in your little corner of paradise.
Hello, Martin! Thanks for re-visiting. The three minute video was my nth attempt at capturing a soupcon of what's out in bloom just now at Barleycorn. It took several hours to upload it as well. Inevitably in the process it comes out grainy on the web, whereas my own clip is as clear as a crystal. But I hope it gives something of the flavour. The choir are 'borrowed' from New College Oxford!
Welcome, Yolanda. Lovely to see you again. I would like to make a longer video, maybe six minutes long.
Only Jaffa and Monster were there. I'll need to book appointments with Taz, Titch and Cookie for next time!
Lovely garden...such a riot of colour. The pond is superb too. Loved the cats sleeping soundly in the garden....they seemed quite content.
A warm welcome to you, ziggywigs...thank you for your encouraging comments. The cats are always contented, in a state of permanent happiness, I feel.
Hi again, Wildlife Gardener
I thoroughly enjoyed my visit round your garden – the videos always give so more than the photos ever can. It is nice to see the movement of the plants with a breeze too.
Funnily enough, I too have had the video camera out. I feel your pain, the attempts, the finished film, the long upload, the time waiting on processing and then the results not reflecting truly the original. However, it still captures the essence of a walk round your garden very well indeed – so it was definitely all worth it! Your garden is looking so well at the moment – you must be delighted with it.
Hi again, Wildlife Gardener
I thoroughly enjoyed my visit round your garden – the videos always give so more than the photos ever can. It is nice to see the movement of the plants with a breeze too.
Funnily enough, I too have had the video camera out. I feel your pain, the attempts, the finished film, the long upload, the time waiting on processing and then the results not reflecting truly the original. However, it still captures the essence of a walk round your garden very well indeed – so it was definitely all worth it! Your garden is looking so well at the moment – you must be delighted with it.
Hello again, shirl, you are very welcome, as always. I like the idea of the video for a change, because I take so many photos that if I was to post them all, everyone would be yawning! Thank you for your valuable comments, which I really appreciate.
What a great tour. I love all the colours and the charming sense of wilderness.
Thank you very kindly, britt-arnhild. It is very much a wild garden with lots of campion, foxgloves, poppies, corncockle, cornflower and ox-eye daisies.
I'm so glad you learned how to put these lovely videos on your blog! Thanks for sharing W.G.
Oh - and what are those strange yellow flowered spikes at the end of the video?
You are indeed blessed to live in the midst of such splendour.
Thank you for sharing it - it's been wonderful looking and listening.
Hello, sally, and a warm welcome to you. Glad you liked the little video. The yellow flowered spikes are asphodels.
Welcome, wendz. Thanks for revisiting my blog. It's often rainy and cold in Scotland in the summer, so I'm so glad to look out onto the garden because it lifts the spirits and feeds the soul!
WOW, Wildlife gardener! Lupines and poppies and artfully "placed" kitty cats... looks like you're one heck of a good garden designer in your own right! :)
Since you're a self-professed wildlife gardener, may I assume that those tall, thick-leaf plants in the first part of the video are milkweeds? I love the foliage on them.
(And I'm drooling over that little pagoda-esque piece by your lovely pond, too.)
Welcome, blackswamp_girl. Lovely to hear from you again. Thank you for those lovely compliments. You are very gracious.
The tall plants are teasels, which were sown a few years ago on our side of the stone-dyke wall which borders our garden and the adjacent farmer's field...but the ever-present wind blows the seed around and this year they have grown in our rockery/scree bed! I don't have the heart to 'weed' them out, as I love their shape and form. They are a stong architectural form in the garden, and, more importantly, their seeds feed the goldfinches in late summer/early autumn, which is why I continue to grow them.
The pagoda was a present given to us on our silver wedding anniversary by my beloved sister. Unfortunately, a few years ago the top of the pagoda, along with a beautiful wrought-iron cat ornament, which stood beside it, was taken from our garden :( ...I only hope the person who took them enjoys them as much as we did. Meantime, I console myself with the five real pussies who choose to live with us :)
I'm not sure how I missed this earlier. I'm so glad to have found it now..!
In my next life I want to be a cat in your garden..
I think I'd like that too, Sheila!
Lovely, absolutely lovely! It was such fun to be visiting your garden albeit on a virtual tour. :-)
Gosh that was great...and the cats sleeping...great touch!!! more more ...sandy
What a treat! I loved "walking" around your garden. It was right out of magazine, especially with the kitties lolling about. I found you via a comment you left on Cornflower's blog. I shall be back to visit.
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