Showing posts with label Allo Jardin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Allo Jardin. Show all posts

Friday, May 4, 2018

04/05/2018 Here yesterday and gone today. (Well quite a lot of it!)

Maximum temperature today 19C, minimum 6C.    Dry today, but 1 mm rain measured yesterday; 14 km/h North Easterly winds with up to 35 km/h gusts.

In the beginning.....
It was getting too big and taking over the bed!!

the scraper at work...

getting smaller.

Loading the rubbish into the truck...

As above...

A change to the digger

and trying to get rid of the roots...

Cutting back the remaining pampas...

and a job well done.   
Now I need to dig the bed and get some flowers in quickly before it is too late.




N.B. My new bird blog is updated  HERE 
Part 7 of the birds I saw last year in Africa.




Tuesday, August 29, 2017

29/08/2017 In the garden again and Nigel did go shopping.

Maximum temperature 31C, minimum 20C.  10 km/h NW wind with 26km/h gusts.  Dry.
The forecast was wrong, it was actually cooler today thanks to some cloud cover.
Bee on the garlic chives.

Busy as a bee - Pumpkin flower...

as above.

Small White.

As above.

Graphosoma Italicum...

As above.

Common Purple & Gold (Pyrausta purpuralis).  This moth is very, very tiny.

Glanville Fritillary (Melitaea cinxia)...

As above...

As above...

As above...

as above in take off mode :-)

Allo Jardin, Nigel went to see them about cutting our big hedge.  I used to do it but it is such hard work!

Shopping at Lidl.