Author Topic: Laughing in the Garden! (Read 34753 times)

bossgard · « **on:** June 18, 2012, 03:52:26 PM »

Scanned images worth a Chuckle . . .

ideasguy · « **Reply #1 on:** June 18, 2012, 05:05:17 PM »

Nice one Toby! Follow that snail

Eric Hardy · « **Reply #2 on:** June 19, 2012, 07:31:42 AM »

Eric

bossgard · « **Reply #3 on:** June 19, 2012, 11:30:29 PM »

And that dear friends -

is how the VERTICAL GARDENING concept came to be!

Eric Hardy · « **Reply #4 on:** June 20, 2012, 07:51:59 AM »

Nice one, Toby

Eric

bossgard · « **Reply #5 on:** June 23, 2012, 05:02:53 PM »

George and I seem to be having the same weather cycle. The lawn, the weeds, the invasives are growing nicely. But not my edibles! I don't think this comic is exaggerating one bit!

bossgard · « **Reply #6 on:** July 06, 2012, 03:25:13 PM »

Knock! Knock! Who's there?

ideasguy · « **Reply #7 on:** July 06, 2012, 03:32:38 PM »

Ha!

You are having a new lease of life now you can work those attachments, Toby!
Have fun

bossgard · « **Reply #8 on:** July 07, 2012, 02:58:57 PM »

I thought Laurie might enjoy this Chuckle!

NightHawk · « **Reply #9 on:** July 07, 2012, 08:15:59 PM »

Nice one Toby

Laurie.

bossgard · « **Reply #10 on:** July 10, 2012, 12:10:52 AM »

Next time, just go hide behind another tree!

Nobody will know you are there!

ideasguy · « **Reply #11 on:** July 10, 2012, 09:51:55 AM »

Naughty

bossgard · « **Reply #12 on:** July 11, 2012, 03:05:19 PM »

It's my nap time!

bossgard · « **Reply #13 on:** July 12, 2012, 03:11:30 PM »

What do you think? Was it the CAT that did it?

bossgard · « **Reply #14 on:** July 13, 2012, 03:02:59 PM »

My feelings exactly!

I was 2 years of age, when I moved into this house.

I love being here so much, it has many, many happy memories stored in it.

And, some unhappy ones too (sadly).

- Toby

Eric Hardy · « **Reply #15 on:** July 13, 2012, 04:08:40 PM »

!!! Can't say that I was born and bred here, but over 56 years in our house is quite a time. Anthea imported me from "up north" 64 years ago. She can remember being bathed in a zinc bath in front of the sitting room fire in the cottage opposite us across the common. That was 80 years ago. We also have snails, just like that, who feel very much at home here until I catch them

Eric

bossgard · « **Reply #16 on:** July 17, 2012, 03:26:45 PM »

Makes good sense to me!

ideasguy · « **Reply #17 on:** July 17, 2012, 03:46:55 PM »

Ah yes. Mans battle with nature, which we lovingly refer to as gardening

Theres an even simpler solution if you want to go that way - leave them alone and eventually they will be the sole survivors

bossgard · « **Reply #18 on:** July 22, 2012, 12:39:37 AM »

Wouldn't you know it?

bossgard · « **Reply #19 on:** July 26, 2012, 03:21:16 PM »

George,

Does young Odhran share his bug collection with you?

Is Odhran your grandson?

The name is rather an odd name here in the USA. Is it a family name carried on from past generations?

- Toby

ideasguy · « **Reply #20 on:** July 26, 2012, 10:56:12 PM »

I fully understand that "greeting" on return from holidays

Over here, August is usually the month when things leap out of the ground. This year is different - its rained a lot this past few months and I'm battling to keep up with the growth of things I don't want and encouraging the things I do want

. Mostly I think nature is winning

Odhran (pronounced Orin - rhymes with foreign) is an Irish name Toby, and new to our family.
Hes No 3 grandchild and very like his Father when he was that age. I used to sit with Simon on my knee and watch the muppets. He knew them so well I turned the tape recorder on (an old reel to reel job!) and taped our conversation asking him who each of the muppets were - that's Animal Daddy etc etc. I'd been "training" him to say what age he was and in the same session, I asked him to tell me - A year and three quarters Daddy. Later, Simon took the tape and saved it for posterity onto another more modern medium. Odhran was showing promise at talking early so I teased his Dad to teach him to say "I'm a year and 8 months Daddy". I think he didn't want to be upstaged

A couple of weeks ago, I received an email with a video attached.
What age are you Odhran? One and three quarters

I had to laugh

As for bugs, no, not yet, but his big 6yo cousin likes to explore the wealth of species in my wilderness

On Saturday, we had a double birthday party, barbeque etc (1st grandson Jordan now 19

and Tara my daughter). The oldies sat and chatted while James and other visitors children played and explored the garden. We discovered that 9yo Amy was fanatical about wildlife. She found a frog, and the hunt started for more. Unfortunately, its abode was in the Rhubarb patch. It was rather flattened next day

This evening, I was spreading a bag of very well rotted shreddings (lovely compost!!) around my small Rhodos, and I spotted something moving when I spread a spade full. It was a Newt (I think).
Unfortunately, James had gone home so he missed that excitement. I cant remember seeing one in the garden before. Perhaps Laurie can advise more on what it might have been and its natural habitat, preferred delicacies etc. The chippings had been allowed to rot in a large commercial compost bag. In the various bags I used up, there were quite a lot of other creepy crawlies in there! Wood lice, ants, snails, snails eggs. I'm now feeling a bit guilty - an awful lot of creatures were made homeless.

NightHawk · « **Reply #21 on:** July 27, 2012, 11:56:51 AM »

Quote from: ideasguy on July 26, 2012, 10:56:12 PM

This evening, I was spreading a bag of very well rotted shreddings (lovely compost!!) around my small Rhodos, and I spotted something moving when I spread a spade full. It was a Newt (I think).
Perhaps Laurie can advise more on what it might have been and its natural habitat, preferred delicacies etc.

The BBC Science & Nature web site has some useful info with photos that may help with ID.

Laurie.

bossgard · « **Reply #22 on:** August 02, 2012, 03:01:00 PM »

Did they serve crumpets, too?

Palustris · « **Reply #23 on:** August 02, 2012, 05:47:23 PM »

The newt would have been eating the things in the compost. We have a lot in the wild life pond and even a resident one in the Greenhouse. When we rebulit the pond we found dozens of them. They soon came back after the disturbance. They like a cool damp resting place and only need a pond in which to breed, rather like togs and froads.

ideasguy · « **Reply #24 on:** August 02, 2012, 07:03:58 PM »

Thanks for that info Eric - never thought of compost being so nourishing

We are on the very top of a hill, no ponds nearby - ummmm quick update, the garden has been like a pond at times this year

The laneway alongside my house is about 6ft lower than my garden, and its not very well drained - water has been lying there most of this "summer"

.

Seriously - frogs (and newts) must be able to find their way to far off steams and ponds - the nearest one is at the bottom of the hill in that lane. Ive come across quite a number in the garden this year. They usually give me a fright when they hop out of nowhere!
A couple of years ago I found a very heavily pregnant frog in my garden and transported it to the water there. I wonder - would it have made it there on its own in such a condition?

Author Topic: Laughing in the Garden! (Read 34753 times)

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