02-04-2019 14:44 - edited 02-04-2019 14:53
02-04-2019 14:44 - edited 02-04-2019 14:53
From last year they were Sleeping Beeuties 2018 to
This year 2019 again these little kind and sweet bees have caught me unaware and when I opened
the sleeping box there were a few anxious looking faces! So up went the boxes sharpish
and they were put on top to feel the fresh air and off they flew ~ they'll be back always
to the same spot they first remember.
These are the boxes facing South in the hot sun.
This is a box with an emerging bee under the release box top.
Wildlife have no respect for photographers!
on 04-09-2019 21:49
on 05-09-2019 09:18
on 05-09-2019 09:18
Some parts of my garden are tiring @TallTrees ...particularly my bedding plants. (mind you my other half convinced me to go to a cheaper place this year and I always think you get what you pay for!)
Last year my pots were still in full flower at the end of October.
My two roses are still doing well...and I do have a a couple of late flowering jasmine climbers which are brightening the place up.
I have a hardy fuschia in the front garden and that is still flowering like mad....
Veritas Numquam Perit
on 05-09-2019 10:19
on 05-09-2019 10:19
Possibly the quick changes in temp. too? To give Hubby a chance to "get out of it" @Cleoriff
I absolutely love those hardy Fuschias when a child we had a Fuschia Hedge it fascinated me always.
These are my bees today Sept 5th all growing into little Red Mason bees. I will be taking them
in end Sept/Oct. I will do a count then as with these bees to keep them safe I clean them all.
In the wild, of course, they would just come out of the plugged tubes naturally.
When I open the tubes I clean them against pollen mites that can destroy the tube.
I put quite a few large begonias in pots this year and they came out fabulous.
on 05-09-2019 10:51
on 05-09-2019 10:51
Great pics @TallTrees and the one of your begonias only proves my point.
I had some last year and they did beautifully. This year they are going over and it's only 5th September.
I won't be going back to the Hilltop Nursery again and that's for sure. lol
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on 05-09-2019 14:31
on 05-09-2019 14:31
on 05-09-2019 19:17
on 05-09-2019 19:17
Lovely again @TallTrees
However, no more struggling to 'save my other half'
It's well known on here that he knows nothing about gardening and cares even less.
So the cheaper the better as far as he is concerned....
Veritas Numquam Perit
on 05-09-2019 20:16
on 05-09-2019 20:36
on 05-09-2019 20:36
I understand that Ray has good working knowledge of all gardening tools and does his level best to trim back the grass and all surrounding areas. Methinks you do him an injustice @Cleoriff , I would go so far as to describe him as a quite accomplished professional trimmer
on 05-09-2019 20:48
on 05-09-2019 20:48
I use Dobbies mainly. Even though they are massive and you may pay a bit more, the annuals are watered daily and I have never had a problem with them. Once I went in July (late for me) and the plants were reduced and still looking beautiful
The other nursery, you could see some of the annuals were already leggy and dry. So to hell with saving money.
I do see some lovely plants on our local market. The only problem with that, they have to be bagged up and carried to your car which is in one of the local car parks. I can't get all the plants I need from there in one go, so I have to give the market a miss sadly.
Veritas Numquam Perit
on 05-09-2019 21:03
on 05-09-2019 21:03
@jonsie wrote:I understand that Ray has good working knowledge of all gardening tools and does his level best to trim back the grass and all surrounding areas. Methinks you do him an injustice @Cleoriff , I would go so far as to describe him as a quite accomplished professional trimmer
Yeah @jonsie like LEVELLING my Jasmine Nudiflorum when I was in Spain. His instructions were, trim it back. He trimmed it so well he brought the trellis down it was clambering through. I came home to a stump of a shrub and trellis all over the lawn.
Still he paid for that mistake. He has never been allowed to forget it
Best of all, the jasmine starting sprouting again....and is now climbing all over the trellis better than ever. So Ray now tells people he did the best thing by 'pruning it back'
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