Good morning ☀️. Looking forward to gardening 🌱later on.

Lovely morning 🌱 🪶 . Lots going on here 👇.

Had a great day out at a local wildlife centre. It was fun, lots to see. After 2 hours heavy rain curtailed the visit. Going back soon to tour the wetlands. 🪶 🦉 🦡 🐈 🦌

Time for chilli harvest. It’s been a good year 👏👏🌱🌶️. I’ve got plans! More about that next week 😃.

Ha ha ha!!! cucumber 🥒in the olive tree 🌱.

Time for the grape harvest 🌱 🍇. Planning to turn the grapes in to raisins.

The roses are still blooming fantastic! 🌱. 🌹

At home sitting in the garden 🌱, enjoying the views, happy 😃. Can you see the Man in the Moon? 🌖

Not my garden 🌱. I felt calmed by the reflections, the light and the serenity of this scene. Lovely. 🪶 🦢

The garden 🌱 needed another point of interest, Sleeping Buddha in a flower bed.

Bug day in the garden 🌱. Part 2. Butterflies. Lots here is normal. Fortunate.

It was bug day in the garden 🌱. Dragonflies. It’s unusual to see them here, they are welcome.

My first (ever) sunflowers grown from seed 🌱. I’ll do more next year.🌻🌻🌻 

Had some decent rainfall and sun here for several days. The roses were encouraged to keep blooming. Delighted. 🌱

This is nice - wood pigeon sitting on a nest hidden in a Judas Tree at the place I do some work. Apparently 2 eggs are in the nest. Ahhh babies! 😃 🌱 🪶 . 🐣

Went for a walk around St James Park in London. Happened upon a sleeping beauty (swan) and its look out a Grey Heron 🌱 🪶. 🦢

Gifts for you from the rose bed 🌱. 💐

More 1st pickings from the garden 🌱.🌶️ 🥒 🍅 and 🫐. Lucky me lots more on the way 👏.

Lovely day today. More gifts from the rose bed 🌱.

Rose bed is still giving gifts 🌱

After a couple of nights away, returned to find the garden 🌱 doing its thing without me 😱. Hydrangea and Cucumber 🥒 growing very quickly.

Went for #walk today, where I’ve been and where I was going. It was lovely, sunny ☀️, hot 🔥 and a cooling breeze on my back.

Warm evening after a hot day, had to water the garden 🌱. My reward was this gorgeous rose hiding behind a bird 🪶 bath. Thank you.

Fabulous morning, lots of Lavender 🌱 and lots of bees humming whilst collecting 🐝. Happy days 😃.

It’s a lovely sunny fragrant morning here. 🌱 Mock Orange is in blossom 👏.

Sad 😟. This is the last of the Box that formed a nice little hedge. The rest succumbed to box blight and dug up. 🌱 Lovely little flowers.

Good morning. Love-in-a-Mist, Devil-in-a-Bush and Nigella all intriguing names for the same flower. 🌱

Sunny day today 👏. Rambling Rose 🥀climbing the tree and blooming. Lovely. 🌱

Today in the park a cormorant romance (in 3 photos). Looking, interested tails up and then relaxed but ready for action. 🪶 📷

Rose Campion (sounds like a comic book character), looking great from distance but tricky to photograph well. 🌱 📷

Well! It’s a bit wacky here, there is a plot afoot to harvest the seed and restore the lawn with it 😳. 🌱. I look on with interest.

That was nice 👏. Burst of song whilst sitting in the garden 🌱 with 🍺 . The bird song app recorded this ⬇️ lot over a 2 minute period. 🪶

There are definitely 2 bees (in the photo) collecting pollen from this magnificent sage 🌱. 🐝🐝

Roses are red (sometimes 😀) violets are blue ……. 🌱

Have to water the garden 🌱 regularly as spring this year is very dry. It’s worth the effort as I can stare at beauties like these ⬇️ .

Home grown Basil, 1st picking of the year. Looks and smells divine. 🌱

Lots happening here 😃. Dog-rose is blooming 🌱. Wonderful.

Fabulous sunny start to the day. Love the Laburnum in flower now 🌱.

Duck day, including cute - ahhhh 🦆.

Unexpected addition to the garden in 2025 🌱. A Wild Strawberry has planted it self in just the right spot 👏.

1 day later, the Crab Apple is really showing off 😃 🌱.

So much is bursting into life here 🌱. Today the Crab Apple blossom showed it’s beauty.

Clematis - lovely 🌱.

Little flowers in bloom now 3/3 - Green Alkanet 🌱. Bit of a a weed here but I like it 😃.

Little flowers in bloom now 2/3 - Choisya 🌱. Looks nice, some people are repelled by the scent 😲.

Little flowers in bloom now 1/3 - Skimmia 🌱

Do you like white bells? 🌱 👏

Lurking amongst the Bluebells 😲, Nursery Web spider 🌱 🕸️ 🕷️.

Spanish Bluebell show 🌱💃. Happy days 😀.

Wood Violet, first time seen here 👏👏👏 🌱.