How does your garden grow?

This week has seen the garden taken over by birds and insects. We bought a bird feeder and food balls a month ago in the hope of gawping at pretty birds through our window. Nothing happened and birds continued to peck for worms in the garden. Even Bob our friendly squirrel left it alone.

That said in the last week or so we’ve had repeat visits from a Robin, Blackbirds and two rather healthy looking Pigeons. They all peck at the food that’s fallen onto our decking from the feeder overhead. I’ve come *so close* to photographing the Robin, I’m convinced he plays with me.

I did capture a Bumble Bee on a Red Hot Poker. A rogue yellow Poker. It was too good an opportunity to miss given half are green and half are orange. A strange mix but stunning aside from the stalks that have been eaten. I love looking at them out of the window.

A few of my flowers have taken a battering since last week. Not by POD either. My Fuchsia is a third of the size after one of its branches was snapped off and an unnamed fuzzy purple flower has had its stem broken. Insects are on the attack.

Overall the flowers in my pots are doing brilliantly, my Dahlia’s are going berserk. The leaves on my Iris are standing tall – I’m hopeful they might flower this year.

It’s great to see a few of the shrubs around the borders of the garden blooming. A mix of pale pinks, quite a contrast to the flowers in my pot plants which are all brights.

The seeds I planted with POD are starting to make an appearance. We’ll have to wait and see whether they’re Sunflowers or Pansies. No sign of any in the lawn yet!

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