Garden Centre

Thursday, August 7, 2008

The things you see while gardening:

• A hawk (probably a kite, but too high to tell) flying way above Sussex on the thermals resulting from last night’s storm
• A large solitary bee, getting very drunk on lavender, and at one point, bending the stem of one flowerhead so far over that it flipped back up, catapulting him across the garden! He was back within a couple of minutes though
• Next door’s cat asleep on top of the wall
• Three tiny tomato seedlings that shouldn’t have been in the flowerbed at all – I moved them into a pot, where maybe they will produce one tiny tomato each and perpetuate their guerrilla existence in my borders
• A second flush on my David Austin English rose – actually not seen so much as smelt, and then tracked down by nose. The second flush flowers are smaller and often don’t open fully, but the scent is just as strong
• Blackberries – lots of them. My thornless blackberry is in full production but somehow, not a single blackberry made it into the freezer from today’s gardening session, I ate them all right off the bush
• Enormous spiders: why do they always hide in dark corners and then run straight towards me when I disturb them? I’m trying to be kind to all living things but I do find it rather difficult when it comes to spiders, especially enormous ones …

Labels: all year gardening, garden bees, garden birds, garden insects

The All Seasons Gardener at 10:14 AM

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