A Flock Of Geese.

A flock of geese on a golf course green whoops! And they were enjoying themselves. The golfers won't be happy!

Allotment.

Helped my friend who has got an allotment, pulled up some beautiful carrots and boy do they taste nice. Radishes as well have grown well. But unfortunately he left the peas a bit late to pick, but they were fine, it was my job to pod them , this was one of my favourite jobs when I was a child, one for me one for the colander!
The beans are coming along nicely so are the potatoes. All in all the allotment is doing well despite the funny weather we are having at the moment.
I keep saying he planted a marrow , he keeps saying he planted a cucumber, which one of us is going to be right?

Beech Trees.

Mowed the lawn with the new lawn mower it wasn't to bad just a bit tricky when turning the corners. But I forgot about the ants nest whoops! You should of seen them scurrying around there was so many, fortunately they left me alone.
Saw an other butterfly, but not many butterflies around this year.
One of the neighbours was complaining about the trees near us, we have got two huge beech trees near us, this neighbour was complaining to a council worker, yes the beech nuts are a pain to walk on when they drop, but they give shelter to the birds and to the insects . They drink up enormous amount of water, if they are cut down we shall be flooded as where we live it is very flat and a lot of people concreted their front gardens and where will the rain go?  Not sure what the council worker replied as I had to go to work .

Garden In Two Halves.

I wasn't going to mention the weather again, but I wouldn't believed it if I didn't see it with my own eyes, half the back garden swathed in sunshine the other half was being battered by hailstones, I didn't have a camera of some sort on hand. It's times like this you wished you did.

Wildflower corner.

Going to sow some wildflower seeds near the butterfly nettles to create a wildflower corner. My new next door neighbours have put a 6ft fence between the 2 properties so a wildflower will look nice and cover a boring wood fence up.

Butterflies are here so is summer.

I am happy now saw a cabbage white butterfly on the clumps of nettles I left for the butterflies. I have a small bit of garden for the wildlife. So I am happy for me summer is here.

Big Mouth.

Me and my big mouth, we had 2near perfect summer days ,warm, the sun out,
a nice gentle wind lovely, this morning grey grey and a touch of rain, I wil try hard and not write about the weather as I think I put a jinx on it.
Walking up to the bus stop, I was looking at the gardens as I pasted and they really look nice . It's nice to see the different gardens each stamped with the personality of the gardeners. And it's nice to get ideas from them, I would never copy, but sometimes I think I would of never thought of that , I will try that but maybe with a different plant or shade of plant etc.

A Most Perfect Summer Day To Date.

A lovely summer day, warm sunshine a blue sky with a few white clouds, no rain clouds in sight and a gentle wind not a breeze as the wind is slightly stronger than a breeze.
Bees buzzing  in the garden lovely to hear them buzzing.
The apple tree is loaded with a load of apples so hopefully a good harvest this year.

Busy,Busy.

In between the showers it warm and sunny. The grass is beginning to grow again after being mowed to practically nothing. Glorious shades of greens in and around the garden and countryside.
The ants are still busy busy! But they stopped for a while to entertain some slugs who came to visit them.
The slug and snail hotel is overflowing now so an other hotel has opened up just near the nettle clump.
Plenty of bees about but not seen any butterflies yet.