Tagged: Gardening

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Garden Colours

The garden has been coming on well this year. It took a while to get going following the big freeze that was winter 2010-2011 but most things seemed to have pulled through in the end and some things are doing well. We could do with a bit more height here and there in the garden,...

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Forage in the Dunes

Morgan and I had a nice little walk through the dunes earlier. We were actually wandering across to the beach to check out what was happening with the RSPB Shear Madness. Unfortunately there wasn’t anyone there so we couldn’t find out more about the Manx Shearwaters or let them know that I often see them when...

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The Garden Yields

Our hard work on the garden is beginning to pay off. As well as looking nice out there, we’ve already had some garden produce. As well as the strawberries we’ve had a few raspberries with plenty more on the way. The blackcurrants and red currants seem to have been striped by the birds, but we’re...

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Poppy

Yet more garden flowers. Poppies self seed themselves all over the place, but the bees like them, they are easy to remove when they appear somewhere that we don’t want them and they certainly add some colour so we tend to leave them here and there.  

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Garden Flowers

It’s another gorgeous day here, clear blue skies, a light breeze and currently 19ºC. Yesterday it reached 24.5ºC, which although it felt hot wasn’t the hottest day of the year so far as we hit 25.3ºC in June 3rd. It’s a shame we have to work on a day like this, but I have just...

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Day Lily

The first of our Day Lillies came out on Thursday – Nice to see a splash of brightness on a grey day.

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Strawberries from the garden

We’ve managed to beat the birds to some of the soft fruit from the garden at last! Anna bought a single strawberry plant a couple of years ago and it has gradually been spreading around a small area of the garden. We have had strawberries on them before but had only managed to eat one...

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Garden Battered by the Spring

I haven’t posted a garden update here for a while. After the gorgeous early spring weather with plenty of sunshine, little rain and very warm temperatures things took a turn weather-wise. Very strong winds, rain and cold temperatures saw the garden suffering a little. As usual the plants coped OK for the first few days...

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Moth Trapping in Ceredigion – 19th May 2011

Last night was the first dry night for a while so despite the wind I put the moth trap out. Things were wuiet early on but there were moths in the trap this morning. Here’s the haul: 1 x Rustic Shoulder-knot 1 x Grey Pug 1 x Pale Tussock 2 x Shuttle-shaped Dart 2 x...