Posted in Birds, Nature, Uncategorized on September 25, 2014| 18 Comments »
Jacko the injured jackdaw, sitting beside the herb garden…
WARNING: You may not want to read this…
It’s SO sad, but we knew he would soon die. I was so tearful at the time that only now can I write this little tribute to the resourceful old jackdaw who came to our garden in July. (more…)
Posted in Dorset, England, Nature, tagged dorset, Nature, Poole, Trees on September 19, 2014| 24 Comments »
The silver tree in Baiter, Poole – an iPhone picture I snapped in 2012…
We have holidayed in Poole in Dorset so many times now, and often walked along the edge of the harbour in the Baiter leisure area, but until this summer we had always turned back when we reached what I call “the silver tree” at the end of the car park.
But this time I looked at the map and worked out we could carry on and end up doing a round trip back to the quay via Poole Park and the town centre. This is (more…)
Posted in Cardiff, Nature, Trees, Uncategorized, tagged autumn, Cardiff, hornbeam, Nature, Trees on September 11, 2014| 11 Comments »
Hornbeam leaves and fruit, September 8, 2014…
Patience is a virtue I don’t have. But “my” hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) is in no hurry to embrace Autumn (which our transatlantic cousins call Fall). So my most recent visit to the tree in Llandaff Fields, Cardiff, was a little bit disappointing.
Thanks to Lucy Corrander’s Loose and Leafy blog, a whole bunch of us are “following a tree” and reporting back every month on what’s been happening. I left my September visit as late as I could, in the hope of seeing a seasonal change.
I always say I love Autumn, but (more…)
Posted in Dorset, England, Garden visits, Gardening, Uncategorized, tagged dorset, Gardening on September 7, 2014| 8 Comments »
This cute bee looks like it has huge eyes and long lashes…
At the end of July we visited Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens, just before we went to Abbotsbury Swannery, in a village near Weymouth in Dorset. Here (more…)
The Squirrelbasket 