Category: Our Garden

  • New Visitor to Garden

    We knew we had hedgehogs in the garden, we can recognise at least two from the photos. We now have another. This is only a short clip cut out and then put together from two tantalising glimpses on the garden camera. We’ll rearrange the camera slightly and maybe have some more hedgehog film soon. Our…

  • Bird Family Bath Time

    We move the garden camera around to watch different things and here are a couple of recent short videos. Double click the videos to go full screen. It’s the starling’s family bath time. It looks like the parents are showing the youngsters what they should do. If the hedgehog is wondering where its food has…

  • Spring Flowers

    These are tubs from Rob and Zowie’s garden. The colourful flowers welcome Spring and also keep us cheerful at this difficult time. It’s good to have flowers in the garden. This tub of pansies is outside our back door and is a welcoming sight as we step outside. Do you have a photo of Spring…

  • Spring Flowers

    This area around the pond has been really good during Spring – plenty of flowers to cheer us up during our enforced stay at home. Another area of the garden which looks good in Spring is the bottom path edged with primroses of various types. What looks good in your garden at the moment, let…

  • Pond Visitors

    We’re pleased with our pond and lot’s of wildlife seem pleased with it too. We get a diverse assortment of visitors some, to us at least, less welcome than others. It’s strange how we choose which bits of nature we decide to support and which we don’t. Here’s a few short videos of visitors to…

  • Gardening

    It’s good to have time to appreciate and potter in the garden. Simple tasks today included providing some support for large hyacinth heads and dead-heading the early daffs. Other outdoor activities continued from previous days – painting more of the Arbour and adding Decking Oil to the Deck alongside the pond.