After working on Saturday I spent the rest of the Easter Bank Holiday weekend in the garden and the woods.
Bluebells are visible from my bedroom window in the woods behind our house so it was only a short walk to soak up their beautiful fragrance....
We are getting butterflies and bees in the garden.
I have tomato, cucumber and chilli seedlings but am keeping them indoors as it will turn cold again next week. Today has been warm and I dozed off in the garden whilst reading my library book.
A couple in West Sussex who gave their farm back to nature and let it grow wild. It's a brilliant read. It is sad to read about how modern farming gas taken so much of our natural habitat and meadowland away... the decline of birds, wildflowers and trees in the UK doesnt make cheerful reading- but the book is full of hope and is inspiring me to do my bit for wildlife by letting my garden go a bit wild :)
Very lovely post. Have a wonderful day today.
ReplyDeleteThank you for visiting :)
DeleteBetty, you are lucky, according to what you tell us I see that in the surroundings of where you live no pesticides have been used. If they had been used you would not have butterflies and bees in your garden
ReplyDeleteI think you are right Norma, beyond the small woodland here the fields around here are not being used for intensive farming so we are lucky that there is a small corridor that is giving wildlife a chance.
DeleteSo many flowers are early this year, it is difficult to keep up with them.
ReplyDeleteI too am having blogger issues and can no longer reply to my comments. Just wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you for calling by, and I am so pleased that you are going to get yourself the 2 for 1 Garden Voucher which I do hope you really enjoy.
I hope the early start doesn't affect growth for crops/food supplies, so many things depend on the weather being predictable.
DeleteAlways lovely to see what you are planning in the garden. It is such a delight to feel that wildlife enjoy one's garden. We have had a pair of Bullfinch this week, not seen for many years.
ReplyDeletehow lovely, I think bullfinch are scarce, I never see starlings or sparrows now.
DeleteYour garden looks so lovely Betty! Oh butterflies already! Spring is here, but it's still quite chilly at night! ☺
ReplyDeletelots of butterflies but very few moths so I have put out solar lights at night to encourage them
DeleteI love spring!
ReplyDeleteme too, it's the busiest time in the garden but so rewarding
DeleteHello Betty, :=) The woodland bluebells are so pretty. It reminds me of my childhood growing up in the country when I used to sit amongst them. Those purple flowers in your conservatory are gorgeous. My garden is a wilderness, I would even go as far as to say, it's a jungle, but I can't garden any more, nor can I find anyone to do any gardening for me.:=(
ReplyDeleteI think your wilderness garden might be enviable these days as left undisturbed it may be supporting a lot of wildlife - I am resisting the temptation to weed for example and to encourage weeds and wildflowers, I am sorry you can't enjoy gardening though and hope you have the chance to at least grow something on your windowsill. The purple flowers will grow indoors and if deadheaded will flower all through Summer - they are called pericailis, I had not seen them before but a garden centre near me had about 200 of them on display - I have noticed though that they don't seem to interest bees.
DeleteYour wander through the woods looks incredibly pretty, Betty. We got back from the cinema to discover that the bluebells in our garden had started to bloom, I went a bit mad last year and thought I might have got rid of a lot of them but they've come back with avengeance.
ReplyDeleteThat book sounds interesting - we're all about the wild here! I think you're veryu wise keeping your seedlings indoors, it looks like it's turning cold again tomorrow. xxx
I am glad your bluebells are still there - none grow in my garden despite only a fence between me and the woods!
DeleteI loved that book, I read it in lockdown. The bluebells are long way off here, they usually arrive in mid May but they are so beautiful when they arrive and the smell is wonderful too how lovely to be able to see them from your house.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if your post edit was in HTML mode rather than compose mode, I am not sure what you screen looks like but if you find the icon that looks like a pen and click on the arrow you will see there is choice of compose view and HTML view you can switch between the two at any point. It is on the left hand side of the screen for me on a laptop.
it was the HTML mode and it's resolved - thank you :)
DeleteWhat beautiful photos. That's a wonderful walk. Love those bluebells -- so pretty. And the book sounds terrific, too. My friend Jenny has wild property they go to in Suffolk and nature is booming there.
ReplyDeleteOn your blogger bar above the post you are writing (where you add pix and such) go to the html icon on the far left and click compose view and you should see it without code. At least I think that's what's up. It looked fine here.
Thanks for coming by today!
thank you! I have found the html icon and it's resolved :)
DeleteHello Betty ... I have seen a few comments on other blogs about issues with blogger too. Your photos are beautiful - so pretty - just love the spring time. It turned cold here & I went in to winter clothes but today is warm again & I have a cotton dress back on. I have read a long article about that book & thought what a wonderful read it looked. Enjoy it Betty .xx
ReplyDeletethe book is interesting, I am learning a lot from it.
DeleteWatched 'Beechgrove' last week and it was teeming with snow in Aberdeenshire where the main programme is filmed! High society wedding this weekend so most of their garden is taken up by the biggest marquee I've ever seen! Nice to see all the apple blossom magically opening up though. Nice colours in your pots. x
ReplyDeleteYour bluebells are much further on than ours! Love all your photos - really show what spring is like. thank you!
ReplyDeleteIsn't that a Comma butterfly? We don't see many of them in our corner of Scotland.
ReplyDeleteLovely flowers in garden and woods
i love when butterflies and bees visit garden and birds yes we have few pairs of small and average size of birds who nest in our creeper and pomegranate ,this is such a joy to see nature on work so close by :)
ReplyDeleteyour garden is looking exquisite wow ,loved the bright blooms and loved the bluebells in your surroundings