Monthly Archives: July 2020

Six on Saturday – 25th July 2020

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So our wash-out summer continues here in the west of Ireland. I would cope with the rain if we just had a little bit more sun! But still the garden grows.

  1. First this week opium poppies. These poppies come up every year in the vegetable path and are loved by bees (and me too!).
  • Poppy with White-tailed bumblebee

2. Next, another vegetable plot flower is Calendula. These are ones my daughter set from saved seed.

  • Pot marigold, Calendula

3. Some broccoli ready to harvest, not the biggest heads but hopefully we will get some side shots too.

  • Broccoli

4. A meadow brown butterfly. The netting is not to keep these butterflies out (they lay their eggs on grasses) but their cousins, the White butterflies.

  • Meadow brown

5. We have had the first ripe tomatoes from the greenhouse.

  • Tomatoes

6. And finally this week some sweet pea. Only just coming into flower.

  • Sweet pea


Thanks to The Propagator for hosting Six on Saturday

Six on Saturday – 18th July 2020

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The weather continues cool and cloudy. It started off lovely and sunny this morning but clouded over. We are hoping for a bit more sun later. Meanwhile in the garden all the young birds are keeping us entertained. There are young blackbirds, swallows, goldfinches, robins, dunnocks and these little wrens. Four are squeezed into this little box which the kids painted years ago. Every time an adult comes with food they are poking their heads out!

Wrens

2. Next this week is alliums – little ones. There are a few just coming out.

Alliums

3. Yarrow with hoverfly.

  • Yarrow

4. A rather wet nasturtium.

Nasturtium

5. I love the blue flowers of hyssop.

Hyssop

6. The blackbirds have found the Logan and Tayberries too, but we have managed to pick some. They just need a bit of sunshine to sweeten up.

  • Logan berries
  • Tayberries

Thanks to The Propagator for hosting Six on Saturday

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #105 – Spring

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Spring is my favourite time of year. Everything is returning to life. Daffodils bring sunshine to the garden.

  • Daffodils

As do dandelions and with them come the bees, bringing back the buzz of insects.

  • Dandelions
  • Bumblebee on dandelion

There are leaves starting to come on the trees and the birds are thinking of nesting and bringing with them songs.

  • Rowan leaves
  • Robin in crab apple tree

The frogs return to the pond, and their chorus adds to the sounds of spring .

  • Common frog

And my favourite wild flowers – primroses, bringing with them their delicate scent.

  • Primroses

Spring brings so much to our lives and above all is hope and renewal.