It's a dull old day, drizzle, heavy cloud cover. Getting late in the year too, so the sun isn't very strong even when it's shining. On a positive note, my Camellia sasanqua 'Navajo' is starting to flower; I'd better get some pictures of it, I only have 171 already, I must need some more. In…
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Comparisons
I put off using the WordPress block editor for as long as I could but eventually decided to jump in. There's a block called image compare which I've been playing with. It's nifty stuff but you really need to get two pictures taken from the exact same spot and with the same camera setup. That's…
The side passage
It'll be a familiar tale. A part of the garden that has passed its sell by date, not a lot happening, not visited much and then only to get somewhere else. Chances are it's dominated by evergreen shrubs that have been getting steadily bigger, casting too much shade, squeezing out the smaller plants. Tackling it…
DIY
I just replaced the wooden decking at the back of our house. I have been putting it off for a while, partly from a conviction that it would last a little longer and that a few dodgy patches were not grounds to replace the lot. I have also considered replacing it with a different type…
A video for August
It's over a month since I did my Spielberg thing so I've been out with the iPhone again, trying to capture the essence of the garden as it is now. Mostly I filmed it yesterday, with grey skies and a blustery wind. Today the grey skies and blustery wind were joined by rain. An ambient…
A seedy offer.
I always collect quite a lot of seed from plants around the garden and have already started to do so this year. Some I need to collect because they are short lived plants that have to be grown anew from seed, some are interesting plants that I perhaps fancy having more of or want to…
June jaunt
Here is a video I put together of my garden in late June. Most of it was from the 26th. I'm pleased with how colourful it's looking. Pleased because colourful is perhaps the single most important quality I'm wanting from the garden. The colour mostly comes from flowers so there is the added dimension…
Vivipary
I have posted under the Six on Saturday meme for three years now, seeking out half a dozen items of note, usually on a Friday, to include in my contribution. The one constant throughout is that later on Saturday I will find something more interesting than anything I included. A flower will have opened, a…
Slugs
If you are squeamish, don't read on. This will not be pleasant. I tell myself that Cornwall is a bad area for slugs, that mild winters mean they are active all winter, breeding all year round. Our often wet summers mean we don't get prolonged dry spells to reduce their numbers. I tell myself that…
Come a little closer still
A couple of days ago I was out taking close up pictures with a macro lens. Today, I thought I would try to go a bit further by focus stacking some images. The biggest problem with doing close up pictures is that the closer you get, the shallower becomes the depth of field. That can…
