I like the garden a bit on the wild side and the lawn has quite a covering of buttercups and daisies. In all the years that I have let the daisies grow, there has never been another like this one. It must be 10 years since this photo was taken but it has never happened again…
Wow, i have never seen things like this.
I named it the ‘crazy daisy’ at the time. 
The Evening Primroses have started flowering. Each flower only lasts about a day once fully open but it does tend to only open a couple at a time, so the whole plant is in flower for quite a while…
Not bad for a £10 Asda special. Supermarket plants can often look a bit droopy because of lack of water. See past that and buy anyway. They look better when home and given a little care…
Is it possible to eat fresh evening primrose flowers, just like we use its oil?
I don’t know about that Pimmy. The insects seem to be OK about eating a chunk two out of the leaves but that’s probably not to much to go by.
Time for the Wild Roses to open. The bees love them. I know they are wild, or at least very upset, because the thorns are really vicious.
Great display Mags.
Thank you Mart….
our bottle bush plant in full flower. A few years ago we thouht it had died, shortlly after we bought it
Very lovely,Mags!!
Acorn pile
this is not even one fifth of what has already been collected. had to stop loads more falling in this wind
It’s surprising how heavy a pile of acorns like that weighs once in the bin. Acorns are a real pain. They fall on the roofs of our outbuildings and the noise never fails to make me jump.
5 more piles of acorns in the garden. That is not all the garden and my blower is sick So may have to wait for the new one to be overhauled.
love the slomo camera setting even captured an acorn falling @ 0.21 sec in to the video
taken with the Panasonic G9ii with the 30-100mm f2.8 lens
yet more acorns today, and got hit on the head by one
still even more to get up another day
this is the fourth or fifth load of acorns bagged up to go down to the dump this season
Each bag needs two people to lift into the car because of the weight
really testing this new lens at 6.30pm on a red rose, the worst colour possible to photograph I recon
another as it is getting dark
Today I took the butternut squash out of their patch. A mixed result this year with only 7 squashes and three of them tiddlers. But to balance that, I’ve got a 50cm, 3.5kg whopper. When the weather chills down a bit I’ll get a big roast on, invite friends round and chuck the squash into the oven with the roast … and a huge amount of garlic. Can’t wait. With roast spuds too of course.