Showing posts with label rosemary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rosemary. Show all posts

Sunday, January 10, 2021

10/01/2021 Trying to catch up......

   Maximum temperature here today 3⁰C, minimum -2⁰C.  Dry  26km/h North-easterly winds with gusts up to 52 km/h.  

I apologise for not answering comments on my last post but feel now, that it is far too late.  There were no questions to be answered, so to all of you now I can only say Happy 2021 and let us hope that the vaccines will soon work, and the rising numbers of COVID cases will soon drop.  The numbers now are beginning to have names and I have lost one friend in South Africa to date.

Much has been going on and time never seems to be on my side.  I will though try to get a few blogs done over the next few weeks.  These photos were all taken in December, I still have to work on January!!!

23 December Nigel had an appointment in Soyaux the other side of Angouleme, we really picked a bad day for the drive!

Sunset, not the same day as above.

I just liked the reflection in this muddy puddle seen out walking.

The Gorse seems to have the dates all wrong as do many other plants!

Common Holly (Ilex aquifolium).

Our garden on a very grey day when a glimmer of sun suddenly poked through a cloud

Flowers on the rosemary.
Seen out walking, the farmer's way of hooking up the telephone line!!

Ivy in an oak tree.

Striped Toadflax (Linaria repens).

Sitting Bull!!

The local, quite small chateau.

Box Holly (Ruscus aculeatus).

Mistletoe.

Puzzle that we both did over the Christmas week - not easy!!

Take care everybody, keep well and stay safe.

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Thursday, March 5, 2020

05/03/2020 Playing with frames.....

Maximum temperature in the Charente today 12C, minimum 6C. Rain all day not measured as yet.  I am guessing that we are now over 200 mm this year.  36km/h North-westerly wind with gusts up to 86 km/h.  

Because the weather is so bad I have been trying to take a few photos of flowers that are not too beaten up and I have been playing with frames for them.  Something different!!

Cowslips (Primula veris).

I think this is wild Sea Mayweed (Tripleurospermum maritimum).

Gorse (Ulex europaeus).

House orchid (Cymbidium).

Wild buttercup (Ranunculaceae).

Snowdrop (Galanthus nivali).

Unknown blossom in the neighbour's orchard.

Wild Greater Stitchwort (Stellaria holostea).

Rosemary (Salvia rosmarinus).

Japanese quince ( Chaenomeles japonica).

Hyacinth (Hyacinthus).

Camellia.


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Friday, April 26, 2019

26/04/2019 A walk in the garden - again!

Maximum temperature today 17C, minimum 7C.  4mm of rain measured this morning.  22 km/h North-westerly winds with gusts up to 49 km/h.  We had some hail yesterday!

Interesting note that this year we have only had 180mm of rain total to date.  The same date last year we had 442mm, in 2017 we had 210mm and in 2016 we had 486mm.  We are obviously way down at the moment.  The garden may well suffer.

Bee on the Rosemary.

Wild Violets. Probably Dog Violet (Violaceae riviniana).

The lambs are growing up. I noticed that the ram was running in the field with these ewes.  Getting ready for next year!

Spotted Crane flies I believe (Nephrotoma appendiculata).

Two bugs in the centre of the Peony.

Common Wall Lizard (Podarcis Muralis).

Californian poppies and Bluebells.

Calendula with a beetle I believe to be Mylabris variablis.

Apple blossom with a Robberfly. 

Red robin in flower.

Rose - the only one to date.

Cherries.

Common Wall Lizard (Podarcis Muralis).

Orchids seen at our local Brico depot, very pretty, I think it is one of the Butterfly orchids.



Saturday, March 9, 2019

09/03/2019 Only flowers today - it seems too cold for the insects again

Maximum temperature today 14C, minimum 7C.  4mm rain measured this morning; as I type this we are having a mixture of more rain on and off.  20km/h North-westerly winds with gusts up to 45 km/h.

So far this year we have had 85 mm,  compared to 320 mm last year, and 158 mm in 2017.  We may though have messed up January as we were not here, and we took the reading of what was in the rain gauge on our return which was only 16mm.

The only surviving plant from our trip to Amsterdam in 2015.  I have just repotted it so I hope I have not killed it off now!  Our roofing guy says it looks like 'un lapin' 😉 (a rabbit).

Bergenia cordifolia.

Camellia.

Daffodils.

Hyacinth.

Rosemary.

Viburnum.

Japanese quince.

Crocus.

Bellis perennis


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