Concern shifts from wet to cold
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Throughout April our concern has been the lack of anything resembling a dry
spell of weather. However, the latter half of the month has been drier and
the ...
6 months ago
Lovely harvests considering the dry weather conditions. My aubergines were nibbled by slugs before fully ripe. Happens every year. Your grapes look good - a neighbour here grows vines for the leaves (he's Greek) but has had lovely dark grapes this year as the vine is growing up a warm sunny wall.
ReplyDeleteOur grapes grow on the garden greenhouse, Caro
DeleteThe Dahlias steal the show for me.
ReplyDeleteYou’re a dahliaphile are you, Mal?
DeleteWhat a fantastic gallery! Loved the goldfinch and that mother and calf! Those cracks in the soil are most dramatic!xxx
ReplyDeleteHighland cattle are great aren’t they, Dina?
DeleteWhat fun! I loved it. I wish we had somewhere to raise Highland cows. I love them. What is the pretty bird at the end?
ReplyDeleteThe two birds at the end are both goldfinches, Bonnie. The one on the right is an adult and on the left is a juvenile born this year. Our goldfinches are quite different to yours.
DeleteThe sheep, highland cattle and little hedgehog steal the show for me but the photos as a whole give a very good roundup of the month, sunny, dry and lots of harvesting.
ReplyDeleteI can never resist photographing Highland cattle, Jo
DeleteAwesome photo recap of the month, Sue - all the diversity not only in harvests bit in what you have seen/done over the month.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Margaret - glad you enjoyed the photos
DeleteWhat the tomatoes! I see Sue that you have had very good harvest in August, lovely orchids and pelargonias, and all this despite on hot and dry weather.
ReplyDeleteOne advantage of hot, dry weather was no blight, Nadezda.
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