My Garden

Welcome to my garden blog; we have lived in this house for 32 years and the garden was virtually bare when we moved in. I think we had 2 Queen Elizabeth roses and some Rhubarb!
The small front garden however had 9 huge clumps of orange Mombresia around the lawn's edge.
We garden on heavy clay which is challenging but over the years we've worked out what works and what doesn't.
The garden has been a playground for our three children over the years and we are not precious about it but we do know what we like.
I hope you enjoy following it through the year.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

May 2011 ~ Indoor Gardening


Flowering Cactus


Flowers all out at the same time
We have had this cactus for years but usually only get one flower at a time

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May 2011 ~ Bombus Hypnorum

Bombus Hypnorum

Bee, licking the inside of tulip petals; you can see his red 'tongue'
This bee was busy on this flower for well over 10 minutes

Bombus Hypnorum, bee, on Ceanothus


This year instead of Blue-tits we have bees in the nesting box
We have researched them and found they are a fairly recent arrival to our shores
Bombus Hypnorum is a tree bee which presumably explains why they like the position of this box which is fixed at first floor level


These two passed each near the box
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