Garden Snap Shots!

Didn't know what variety they were TTDL. They have been in my garden ever since I bought the house. They have moved around a bit and multiplied as I have moved soil about the garden to reshape it. Sadly the last years very hot weather and dry conditions have decimated most of my plants and new ones and some TLC will be required to revive it.

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Peedee. The snowdrops have been lovely this year, I think the dry weather has helped. TDA strangely enough I bought some little London Pride plants on ebay last year, they used to be popular as edging plants didn't they, still haven't planted mine up. 

Interesting little plant PD, I had to look up it’s Latin name, as I know it only as London Pride. Is Saxifraga Urbium. The London Pride tag apparently comes from the fact that it colonised the bomb sites after the London Blitz, which is rather interesting (to me anyway🤣). Makes sense that it was in garden pre your ownership, it doesn’t seem to feature much in modern gardens. But I like it, and have moved clumps around. Mine suffered last year in the heat as well, but it’s come back nicely, I will keep more of an eye on mine if (🤞) we have another hot Summer.

Something nice for me to add to the garden, Sis has bought me a yellow flowering Magnolia😁

Looks great, never seen one .

I first saw one in full bloom last year, in a neighbours’s garden. They don’t get as large as many Magnolias, and the colour was lovely. Mine is sort of a four foot stick at the moment, with buds, but hopefully it will flourish. It’s called Yellow Bird, there are other yellow varieties as well. Got a nice new Fig as well👍

My new Magnolia has flowered😁 Just the one bloom, but lots of other new shoots, so it seems to be doing well. Still in its pot in the greenhouse at the moment, as we have had some very cold nights recently, but I have identified a spot in garden for it. Fig doing ok as well. Reminder, I need to clear out and tidy the greenhouse, it gets used as a log drying shed in Winter, as well as housing lots of other things.

Just watching our resident Jackdaws, who seemed to be doing a strange dance on our gravelled path. Little blighters are ripping up the weed membrane for nesting material.🤨 Our resident birds decimate our basket liners every year for nesting. Food, water, shelter from predators, hedges, trees and shrubs for nesting, pooch to chase off neighbouring cats, it’s an avian paradise here!

It's surprising what birds use to build nests, we've had blackbirds using the threads from bright blue sacking. 

Had a lovely day in the garden here,a pottering around doing this and that day. It’s “yellow”time at the moment, still got lots of daffs, a few primroses hanging on. Two of my current favourites out at the moment, an Erythronium (Pagoda Lily), and some acid lemon frilly edged tulips….

Lots of birds around, squirrels everywhere, and a very small rat! Neighbour’s pooches came round to help, a small JR and an enormous Rottweiler, both great fun. OH has almost finished a bit of fencing, and it was fun seeing our pond literally heaving with tiny tadpoles😁

Getting productive now. 🌱

Canary Bird rose is also out.

No takers for this box so far 

Glastonbury thorn flowering.