in the garden
what was happening last i wrote? and what's been happening since?
iirc, the frogs-on-way-to-spawn had been slaughtered, and i'd seen newts in the pond for the first time since we built it.
since, mymouse and i saw a beautiful emerald frog in the pond *smile* (a month of sundays ago now!?). and i've seen many sandy brown/light green ones in the pond and the garden generally since... including a couple i've had to rescue from tweety cat. so (as i'd hoped) the non-spawning frogs returned *smile* and they seem to coexist with the newts.
i might've mentioned peacock, comma, and white butterflies... and have since enjoyed blues, and have more recently been enjoying red admirals *smile*
i've continued to enjoy the goldfinches. and i welcomed the swifts a while back now, and i love their screaming flights high overhead, and sometimes low over the garden *grin* and the past week/so i've noticed a feamle sparrow regulalry coming to forage for food in the garden *smile*
in may the poppies flowered, and i enjoyed their huge gorgeous red-nesses *smile* they were here when i moved in 8 years ago, and at that time existed as a pale purple-pink domesticated variety... and they've since naturalised, retaining their domesticated size, but reacquiring the deep red of the cornfield/wayside poppy.
and this month has seen the papaver somniferum i planted from seed earlier in the year flowering *smile* i was surprised by their colours, expecing them to be white/pale - they're a gorgeous mix of pale pinks, purple pinks, deep pinks, red pinks... and they smile divine - sweet, enticing, subtle and strong, inviting you to curl up in their scent. i've been reading a bit about harvesting the seed heads...
iirc, the frogs-on-way-to-spawn had been slaughtered, and i'd seen newts in the pond for the first time since we built it.
since, mymouse and i saw a beautiful emerald frog in the pond *smile* (a month of sundays ago now!?). and i've seen many sandy brown/light green ones in the pond and the garden generally since... including a couple i've had to rescue from tweety cat. so (as i'd hoped) the non-spawning frogs returned *smile* and they seem to coexist with the newts.
i might've mentioned peacock, comma, and white butterflies... and have since enjoyed blues, and have more recently been enjoying red admirals *smile*
i've continued to enjoy the goldfinches. and i welcomed the swifts a while back now, and i love their screaming flights high overhead, and sometimes low over the garden *grin* and the past week/so i've noticed a feamle sparrow regulalry coming to forage for food in the garden *smile*
in may the poppies flowered, and i enjoyed their huge gorgeous red-nesses *smile* they were here when i moved in 8 years ago, and at that time existed as a pale purple-pink domesticated variety... and they've since naturalised, retaining their domesticated size, but reacquiring the deep red of the cornfield/wayside poppy.
and this month has seen the papaver somniferum i planted from seed earlier in the year flowering *smile* i was surprised by their colours, expecing them to be white/pale - they're a gorgeous mix of pale pinks, purple pinks, deep pinks, red pinks... and they smile divine - sweet, enticing, subtle and strong, inviting you to curl up in their scent. i've been reading a bit about harvesting the seed heads...
