Real spring bits and bobs

[Motherwoman]

I'd plant a Russian Vine up that big tower, when the occupants are inside... water and stand back!

[retropants]

our Robin is feeding a wee chick in the garden. he/she gets followed around by a chirping juvenile until it's mouth is filled, then it starts all over again. I am going to do some lawn maintenance over the weekend, so I suspect i shall be seeing quite a bit of them!

[vegpatchmum]

I think we may have young in the wrens nest because the parents are zipping in and out all day. They've nested in the ivy growing up our bathroom wall. The babies stay quiet when we are passing but I keep hearing raucous calls whenever I'm down the bottom of the garden, coming from the top end. For small birds wrens make a lot of noise

VPM
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[Geoff]

They've nested in the ivy growing up our bathroom wall. The babies stay quiet when we are passing

Fascinating!

[vegpatchmum]

They've nested in the ivy growing up our bathroom wall. The babies stay quiet when we are passing

Fascinating!

I should point out that we have a downstairs bathroom

I'm only assuming it's wren babies that I can hear calling when I'm the other end of the garden or walking back up towards the back door. The noise does stop when I get closer and other than the sparrows/starlings in the eaves at the top of the main part of the house, I'm not aware of any other nests in that part of the garden and certainly haven't seen any activity. The ivy is quite dense, so we can't see the nest but the parent birds are pretty busy which would indicate that there are mouths to feed.

Time will tell I guess but it's nice to have them nesting

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[Geoff]

Anglesey stays in no overall control

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I know its a foreign country but you have strange neighbours Alan.

[alan refail]

It'll probably continue to be run by the same self-serving bunch of "independent" crooks who got the council taken into "special measures" and run by an Welsh Government commissioner for the past few years.

[oldherbaceous]

Dear VPM. just to clarify, is the ivy growing on the inside, or the outside of the wall?

[vegpatchmum]

Dear VPM. just to clarify, is the ivy growing on the inside, or the outside of the wall?

Lol, it was very nearly growing on both sides but I dealt with it

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[Geoff]

Alan, it was the skin tones rather than the politics that worried me.

OH, or are they just passing with the window open.

[peter]

They look normal for Essex, girls that is, orange is the preferred all over choice.

[Wicky]

Oi!! I'm not orange honest!

[Geoff]

Have Cowslips changed from the old wild flower? These were at RHS Harlow Carr today.

[Clive.]

We have, I suspect, a slightly cultivated variation of a cowslip which seems to have an extra propensity to seed about very strongly.

It has also been busy hybridizing with some Primula in the East Garden Orchard.
The Cowslip was grown from seed and planted by the wife of our former Caretaker when they had their flower and vegetable garden in this area.

Clive.

[Clive.]

..and where the hybridizing happens.......

Clive.