Inky Dinky Spider(s) !
....the garden is full of them !! One can't walk anywhere at the moment without walking into them.... it feels a bit Catherine Zeta Jones in "Entrapment" ! trying to avoid walking into a web and wondering where said spider may have landed or be hanging from.... the webs are very elasticated. Judging by the colour of them (bronze) they are Orb Web Weaver Spiders, and weave their webs very quickly and across quite a distance....... amazingly, there are a couple who re-span across the garden path in the back garden by the time I've watered the plants and pots at the front and side of the house.... no more than about half an hour !! ....If I didn't know better (do I ? LOL) I would think they are trying to take over ( a little of the film "Arachnophobia" springs to mind but I have to get over it !)
Our "Teasing Georgia" rose has for some reason decided to grow tall this year, and this bloom keeps catching the corner of my eye through the window near the desk. Of course a spider had decided to bridge the gap between it and and the olive bush a good three feet away.... luckily I just spotted it in time.
Whilst on the subject (vaguely) of plants/gardens, last week at the Garden Museum a couple from North Yorkshire came in, they were actually down in London for the Olympics and decided not pay extra to see our temporary major exhibition "The Plant Seekers" but wondered if there would be anything about a little known plant collector Yorkshireman call Reginald Farrer....I said I'd look, I'd never heard of him, even in Yorkshire, and was surprised to find he did have a mention in the form of....
Apparently he was a bit of an "eccentric", never married, close male companions etc.... and one report says he died of alcohol-poisoning (says me sipping a gin!) In Yorkshire he fired a large gun filled with non-native wild-flower seeds into a cliff face, and it's reported they continue to bloom every year.......
On Thursday this week it looks like I am going to start my training to be a guide at the museum, I'm just hoping my mind can take in all, or at least some, of the heaps of information on a wide range of subjects....watch this space !
Amongst other things, I'll have to brush up on my knowledge of Captain William Bligh, as he is quite a draw, at least his tomb is ! with people from all over the world.... particularly the Southern Hemisphere...... some of whom just want to visit his resting place.
Our "Teasing Georgia" rose has for some reason decided to grow tall this year, and this bloom keeps catching the corner of my eye through the window near the desk. Of course a spider had decided to bridge the gap between it and and the olive bush a good three feet away.... luckily I just spotted it in time.
Whilst on the subject (vaguely) of plants/gardens, last week at the Garden Museum a couple from North Yorkshire came in, they were actually down in London for the Olympics and decided not pay extra to see our temporary major exhibition "The Plant Seekers" but wondered if there would be anything about a little known plant collector Yorkshireman call Reginald Farrer....I said I'd look, I'd never heard of him, even in Yorkshire, and was surprised to find he did have a mention in the form of....
Apparently he was a bit of an "eccentric", never married, close male companions etc.... and one report says he died of alcohol-poisoning (says me sipping a gin!) In Yorkshire he fired a large gun filled with non-native wild-flower seeds into a cliff face, and it's reported they continue to bloom every year.......
On Thursday this week it looks like I am going to start my training to be a guide at the museum, I'm just hoping my mind can take in all, or at least some, of the heaps of information on a wide range of subjects....watch this space !
Amongst other things, I'll have to brush up on my knowledge of Captain William Bligh, as he is quite a draw, at least his tomb is ! with people from all over the world.... particularly the Southern Hemisphere...... some of whom just want to visit his resting place.