Up Close in the Garden
Just a few up close and personal photos from the garden.
Category: Hobbies & Pastimes
Beehaving in the Garden
‘Beehaving’? If you remember from my last post about the bees they had been ‘mis-beehaving’. I had performed an artificial split only for the half without the queen to be a little lax in creating a queen cell while the haf with the queen swarmed anyway leaving no queen cell behind. I think my actions have helped...
Garden Panorama’s
I probably should have waited for a sunny day to do this, but here are a few panoramic shots of our garden this week. It looks nice like this.
What is it with our bees?
Why do our bees never do what they are supposed to do? I checked in on them today as it was such nice weather. 23ºC, sunny and with just a very light puff of a wind. Having performed an artificial swarm on them last week I wanted to check several things. Hive 1 This is the...
Oranges and Lemons in the Garden
The garden is moving from it’s blue and purple phase into one of oranges and lemons.
Artificial Swarm – Splitting a Bee Colony
Things have been fairly quiet on the beekeeping front so far this year. With only one viable colony at the bottom of the garden there has been little to do. I’ve been inspecting them regularly and they have been gradually building up. Other than that, I’ve had lots of phone calls about bees nests but they have...
Phormium Flowers
The Phormium in the garden is going mad. Loads of massive flower spikes all reaching into the air like little rockets about to explode into flower.
Photos from the Garden
Just some photos from the garden for you to enjoy. It’s lovely out there at the moment. It’s actually going through a bit of a purple phase as usual at this time of years but there are some yellows around too thanks to the Poached Egg Plants and of course the Solunum which is a...
Westbury Mill Water Gardens
We like to stop off on the way home from my parents and generally do so at a garden centre. It gives us chance to maybe buy some plants or other things and have some lunch. It also breaks the journey up a little so that we aren’t driving non-stop for 3½ hours. The trouble...
Running, Surfing, Sky’s Garden Nursery & Bike Riding – Bank Holiday Fun from Ynyslas
We didn’t really have much planned for Bank Holiday Monday. For a start I kind of forget about Bank Holidays as I don’t usually ‘go into’ work on a Monday but work from home. However, Anna and Morgan were off so it seemed as though we should do something. Running around Ynyslas I was up...
