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…
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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…
Won’t you come a little closer
Sometimes you have to take a closer look, to see what's not to be seen.
Bluebells
The nation's favourite flower, so if its very identity is threatened by an alien invader, it's a matter of great national import. I realise now, with the great benefit hindsight brings, that my early gardening years were a time of great innocence. Innocence is perhaps the wrong word because what I probably mean is ignorance.…
Just another seasonal video.
I've been trying to get to grips with the video editing side of Adobe Elements. I've use Photoshop Elements for picture editing for many years and through several versions of the program but only on my recent update of it did I plump for the video version as part of the package. Like the picture…
If you go down to the woods today..
Somewhere in the hidden recesses of my memory is something about William Robinson and the need for every gardener to set aside an acre or so of their garden for woodland. I have tried, but with a garden of around one eighth of an acre in total, I have failed. My woodland consists of the…
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