It’s very warm but somewhat hazy here today, quite pleasant. Here are a couple of photos I have just taken, one little corner of our garden and a bee in the nectarine blossom.
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Lovely photos Loretta and what a beautiful garden you have! 
Thank you Mags, it’s mostly due to my OH, I just do the “pottering” bit now and then. Most things grow well here and some very quickly indeed but we do get insect problems, mostly with those horrible huge locusts, you can actually hear them munching away on the leaves. I hate them, big ugly things they are and they take off like helicopters.
Yuk! maybe we are better off with our milder climate after all! 
My thoughts too 
But it is a lovely shingled area Loretta.
The whole garden is shingled Janela, apart from the pool area and parking space. Not many people have lawned areas really, they would take too much watering and we get very little rain here, also we’d most likely get ticks in the grass, so pebbles are better. This photo is from last year, those disgusting locusts were using my garden as a love nest !
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a13/mzungu/from%20March%202010/P4280003.jpg
I hope you threw a bucket of water over them, Loretta!
They are certainly huge insects aren’t they!:shock:
You have a lovely garden Loretta
Goodness me, those locusts are huge! The last time I saw locusts like that was when we went to Cancun, Mexico - there was what we thought a big dark cloud descending, and it turned out to be locusts! :shock: They settled for a while in the grounds then took off again.
You have a stunning garden, Clumsy. I’m just glad that we don’t have the Locust though. Yuk.
