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Artists Garden
2 days ago

Not a huge #nuts #harvest . Too early but squirrel is already coming to visit. I left plenty. His/her needs are greater than mine.
The #pears are ours, too.

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Photograph shows a rustic woven bowl containing nuts and two pears, all freshly harvested. The bowl stands on a table with a wooden top. Viewing angle is from slightly above. To the left the indication of the backrest of a white painted, worn, wooden chair. In the background the feet and bottom of a larger cabinet made from red-brown wood, standing on a light wooden floor. Chair and cabinet blurred.
Artists Garden
4 days ago

#Salvia #involucrata #Hadspen at the entrance to the #stumpery . I normally grow from seed but this plant was bought last October, overwintered in the greenhouse and planted out this May.
Isn’t it #beautiful ?
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A tall flowering Salvia involucrata ‘Hadspen’ with many purple-pink flowers on one stem.
Artists Garden
5 days ago

Sunny #morning in the #garden . The plants are bowing low after yesterday's heavy rain.

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Photograph shows the central part of my garden in the low autumnal morning sun, which is just coming up. In the foreground, perennials borders run across the image from left to right. Some plants are still in flower, others have gone to seed. The predominant colour scheme is purple, pink and blue with highlights of yellow. Trees and shrubs in the middle ground form a barrier to the bottom of the garden in the background, which is only visible as a tempting indication of the garden continuing without showing much detail.
Artists Garden
6 days ago

Camillo seems to like the new table and bench.
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#cat #catsofmastodon #camillo #artistsgarden #wolfkettler #photography #catportrait #tuxedocat #tuxedocats #blackandwhitecat #farmhouseTable #bench #caturday

A black and white cat lying on his front with the right front paw stretched out on a wooden bench next to a light coloured farmhouse table. His eyes are half closed, he is slow-blinking me.
Artists Garden
1 week ago

Been working on my #website all day, especially to give the garden the #love it deserves. Take a look if you are interested: http://www.wolfkettler.com

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Artists Garden
1 week ago

#Foggy morning in the #garden - The light is so beautiful, #soft and #diffused. Gives a #pastel quality to the colours.
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The photograph shows a view of two neighbouring borders in the soft light of a foggy morning. The path between them is almost impassable at this time of the year, when the plants have reached their full size. The borders are planted with ornamental grasses and perennials, some of which are going over, others have already gone to seed. Some of the identifiable plants in this photograph are Salvia nemorosa, Rudbeckia, Achillea, Echinacea, Verbena bonariensis and Scabius.
Artists Garden
2 weeks ago

Very pleased! I am still harvesting #tomatoes , #courgettes and #RunnerBeans
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Photograph shows a trug and a small, white wicker-type basket side by side, seen from above. In the trug to the left are a courgette, runner beans small enough to be eaten in the pod and ripe tomatoes. In the basket are runner beans that have been left to dry on the plant. They will be ‘shelled’ now for the individual beans to be used immediately or dried. In their dried state they are often known as butter beans. All freshly harvested this morning.
Artists Garden
2 weeks ago

Meet the #neighbours

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Black and white photograph of the view from an upstairs window across shrubs and hedging. Bordering onto my garden is a field with a small group of cows.
Artists Garden
2 weeks ago

Last week we were enjoying a few days of sunny, dry, hot and #summery weather. What else can you do but sit lazily in the #shade of a big tree?
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#weedgardening #weeds #wildflowers #WildlifeFriendly #PlanetFriendly #pollinatorFriendly #Lythrum #loosestrife #selfSeeded

Photograph shows the area around our garden pond. In the foreground flowering Echinacea purpurea, ornamental grasses and several other plants. Behind a large fern. The area behind that is planted up with various wild plants, such as Blue alkanet, Sedge, Comfrey and other wildflowers. The large purple flowering plant in the background is self-seeded Lythrum salicaria (Purple loosestrife), I think. The bees adore it. To the left is a very large spruce tree. Along the back runs a beech hedge.
Artists Garden
3 weeks ago

The light was beautiful this morning. All hazy, gentle and soft. The path in the middle on the right is the entrance to the #stumpery. Lots of new planting this year, which will only reach full height next year.

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Photograph shows a part of our garden with a fern and a perennials border in the foreground. In the middle distance shrubs and another border and in the far distance a tall evergreen hedge. In the middle ground on the right is a narrow path, which snakes off into the stumpery, which is out of view.
Artists Garden
3 weeks ago

Another #garden #ornament is this #gate in a hedge. I made it from a #pallet and it does not open. It only exists to look pretty.

#gardenOrnament #laurelHedge #romanticGarden #gardenGate
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This photograph shows an ornamental, non-functional low wooden gate set in a laurel hedge. There are cuttings on the ground because I had just trimmed shrubs.
Artists Garden
3 weeks ago

I adore the #morningLight in our #garden

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Photograph shows densely planted borders in the foreground running across the frame. Most noticeable plants are Echinacea purpurea, Verbena bonariensis, Salvia nemorosa and sunflowers. In the middle distance a row of shrubs and in the far distance in the background tall trees. The scene is backlit by the rising morning sun.
Artists Garden
3 weeks ago

Early morning in the garden, sitting on the patio amongst the plants with a cup of steaming hot coffee. Priceless!

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Photograph shows the patio in my garden. In the centre a perennials bed. Predominant plants at this time of the year and in this shot are Cosmos and Chives. The Hylotelephium (Sedum or ice plant) are coming into flower. The patio is framed by shrubs. In the background a blue painted garden shed. The scene is lit by the early morning sun.
Artists Garden
3 weeks ago

Harvested the first #RunnerBeans, which I had left to grow big and dry on the plant, including #Greek #Gigantes and #Scarlet Emperor.

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Photograph shows white and purple runner beans arranged on a wooden table top, viewed from above, along with a few of their dried seedpods.
Artists Garden
4 weeks ago

This morning in the #garden after a rainy day and a rainy night. Suddenly it has become #autumn

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The photograph shows a wide view of my garden. Close are two densely planted borders running across the photograph, in the middle trees and a hedge and beyond that an indication of where the garden leads.
Artists Garden
4 weeks ago

A damaged wall cupboard serves as an #ornament on the #patio wall in our #garden. It houses plants, dig finds from the garden (glass bottles, a clay pipe, animal teeth, etc.) and a couple of framed, #vintage photographs, which I change frequently.
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The photograph shows a broken wall cupboard mounted on the patio wall in our garden. It has two shelves. On the top shelf are two framed, vintage photographs (one showing a group of old men in Greece, the other a man holding onto a tree) and decorative stones. Displayed on the lower shelf are garden dig finds: old glass bottles, a clay pipe and animal teeth. Below are three small drawers, two of them with small plants in pots. On top of the cupboard stands a small, rustic urn. Next to the cupboard is a wall mounted pot with flowering geranium.
Artists Garden
1 month ago

I have started going for a #barefoot walk in the #garden first thing every morning, immediately after getting up. No idea why but it is very #invigorating
Please, someone tell me that I am not alone!

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Photograph shows a man’s bare feet and legs to just above the knee standing in the grass, seen from above.
Artists Garden
1 month ago

Morning in the garden. It’s almost beginning to look #autumnal

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Densely planted borders with perennials, biennials, ornamental grasses and a large bamboo in the hazy morning light.
Artists Garden
1 month ago

Relaxing in the #garden this afternoon after ... a day's work in the garden.

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Photograph shows two borders separated by a narrow path. The borders are planted densely with tall, flowering perennials. The most noticeable plants in the photograph are sunflowers, Echinacea purpurea, Monarda didyma and ornamental grasses. In the background is a tall hedge.
Artists Garden
1 month ago

If #coffee isn’t for you (last post), we can also look at this rather lovely #Crocosmia Lucifer in the #Garden of Delights, being friends with a #Monarda didyma.
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A red flowered Crocosmia Lucifer mingles with the pink and purple flowers of a Monarda didyma in this densely planted border.
Artists Garden
1 month ago

Fading light of an overcast evening: #Echinacea purpurea, #Verbena #bonariensis, #Achillea millefolium (yarrow), #Salvia x jamensis Violette de Loire and gone over Salvia nemorosa #Ostfriesland.

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A border with flowering Echinacea purpurea, Verbena bonariensis, Achillea millefolium (yarrow), Salvia x jamensis Violette de Loire and gone over Salvia nemorosa Ostfriesland photographed in the fading light of an overcast evening.
Artists Garden
2 months ago

When we first moved to this property, this was a fussy rockery. I let it all get out of control. Now the #evergreens are huge and interlaced with self-seeded plants, #poppies #yarrow and St. John's wort. It’s all rather beautiful now.
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Self-seeded poppies, yarrow and St. John’s Wort are interwoven in a profusion of large evergreen shrubs.
Artists Garden
2 months ago

Something different … #Kolokithokeftedes - #Greek #courgette patties/cakes with #feta and #herbs. Own #vegetables and #herbs.
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Photograph shows a plate of eight Kolokithokeftedes - Greek courgette cakes/patties - and half a lemon, arranged on a wooden dining table. On both sides of the plate the edges of green and white chequered placemats are visible.
Artists Garden
2 months ago

One for #SilentSunday — #morning coffee in the #garden
After a grey start this morning, briefly gloriously #sunny and now grey again.

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Photograph shows a densely planted border to the left. Plants are Echinacea purpurea, Echinops ritro, Achillea filipendula ‘Parker’s Variety’, ornamental grasses and many more. A light blue painted garden shed is partly visible in the distance, hiding behind a bamboo. To the right a sundial on a stone column, standing in a border with Hollyhocks.
Artists Garden
2 months ago

At this time of the year the paths become ... impassable.

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Two densely planted borders, one to each side of the paved path that runs through the photograph from bottom to top. The plants in the borders are partly growing into the path.
Artists Garden
2 months ago

The #garden is swarming with #butterflies, bees and lots of other individuals. So satisfying!
This photo, a #peacock #butterfly on a #Buddleja.

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A peacock butterfly on a flowering Buddleja. Its wings are almost completely closed, only revealing just enough of the pattern on the upper sides of the wings to identify it.
Artists Garden
2 months ago

A female #Gatekeeper #butterfly and a #bee share a flower on one of the #Echinops ritro, also called Blue globe thistle.

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A female Gatekeeper butterfly and a bee sit on the same flower of an Echinops ritro.
Artists Garden
2 months ago

After a sunny morning a grey afternoon. View across the width of the garden. Very satisfying to think that only a few years ago there was nothing except grass, the trees and the hedge in the distance.

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View across the width of my garden. Two large borders, densely planted with many types of different perennials (now in flower), are separated by a narrow path. At the other end a cream painted greenhouse is partially visible before a tall evergreen hedge. The flowers bring colour to a grey afternoon.
Artists Garden
2 months ago

After much rain yesterday and more this morning, the sky is beginning to clear.
The most prominent plants in this photograph of the #garden are #Monarda #didyma, ornamental #grasses, #Echinops ritro, #Hydrangea, #Rudbeckia, #Achillea filipendula, #Digitalis and #Kniphofia #seedheads, #Echinacea #purpurea and #Knautia #macedonica.

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Photograph of the central part of my garden showing an explosion of flowering plants. The most prominent plants in this photograph are Monarda didyma, ornamental grasses, Echinops ritro, Hydrangea, Rudbeckia, Achillea filipendula, Digitalis and Kniphofia seedheads, Echinacea purpurea and Knautia macedonica, along with trees, shrubs and hedges. The sky is beginning to clear after much rain and clouds and it has become partly sunny.
Artists Garden
2 months ago

#Monarda #didyma ‘Panorama Mix’ in a part of the garden that I call the Garden of Delights.

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A ‘field’ of flowering Monarda didyma in shades of pink and purple before the dark background of an evergreen hedge.
Artists Garden
2 months ago

Morning in the garden.
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#SalviaNemorosa #lavender #miscanthus #MiscanthusSinensis, #kleineFontäne, #echinacea #EchiinaceaPurpurea #yarrow #snapdragon #artistsgarden #garden #gardening #gardenphotography #artist #wolfkettler #gardenwiltshire #wiltshiregarden #wiltshire #WildlifeFriendly #PlanetFriendly #pollinatorFriendly

A densely planted border with Salvia nemorosa, lavender, Miscanthus sinensis 'Kleine Fontäne’, budding Echinacea purpurea, Yarrow, snapdragons and many other plants backlit by the rising sun.
Artists Garden
2 months ago

Some #butterflies, such as this Red admiral, are easy to photograph because they sit still and pose. Others are far more skittish and camera shy.

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A Red admiral butterfly sits on the flower of an Echinacea purpurea, wings open.
Artists Garden
2 months ago

One of the areas of grass, which has not been cut once yet this year, has turned into a #meadow of Lesser or Common #knapweed (Centaurea nigra) and #Yarrow. Both plants are among the top nectar producers, loved by insects and also birds.

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A dense wildflower meadow of uncut grass, Lesser or Common knapweed and Yarrow, both flowering.
Artists Garden
2 months ago

The #Echinacea purpurea have started to flower, the #Echinops ritro in the background are still taking their time. Also in the photograph (from bottom left) #Achillea filipendula ‘Parker’s Variety’, #Eupatorium cannabinum, Ragwort and #Miscanthus sinensis ‘Gracillimus’.
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A densely planted border with Echinacea purpurea, Echinops ritro, Achillea filipendula ‘Parker’s Variety’, Eupatorium cannabinum, Ragwort and Miscanthus sinensis ‘Gracillimus’.
Artists Garden
2 months ago

Hello from the #garden!
#Breezy day, partly cloudy with a lot of sun. Nowhere near as #windy as forecast. I reckon gusting F6, #MetOffice thought thundery, gale force winds (F8). (So far, at least.)

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A garden densely planted with flowering perennials, wildflowers, ornamental grasses, shrubs and a tree.
Artists Garden
2 months ago

After the first flush of spring, the garden is gaining in height and the colours return. Ever so slowly!

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View across a densely planted, lush border. In the foreground a sundial is partially visible. Prominent plants in the foreground are Achillea filipendula ‘Parkers Variety’ and dark red and pale yellow Hollyhocks.
Artists Garden
3 months ago

#Skilful, #enterprising, #persistent and very #endearing: The Strawberry Thief
Her/his needs are surely greater than mine, so it’s all good.

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#strawberries #strawberryGrowing #vegetarian #organic #healthyeating #mouse #strawberry #thief #wildlife #WildlifeFriendly #determination #fruit #fruitgrowing #persistence #cute #video

A little mouse eats and takes strawberries off a plant that is growing in a pot in the garden. She comes back several times to harvest more. The mouse has to jump up to reach the fruits. At the end of the video he bites off the leaf that he is holding onto and falls off.
Artists Garden
3 months ago

#Vegetable #growing is miraculous: You dig something up or cut something off and it becomes dinner.

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A trug set on the ground with a fresh harvest of second early potatoes. The skin on the potatoes is smooth with some earth still left on them. The eyes are a somewhat violet colour.
Artists Garden
3 months ago

Harvesting #vegetables really takes off now. #Courgettes and French (fine) #beans.
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A harvest of courgettes and French beans is displayed in a wooden trug, which is set on the ground next to the big leaves of a courgette plant.
Artists Garden
3 months ago

A #leafcutter #bee takes his/her piece of leaf, cut from a rose leaf in the garden, into a hollow log in the #stumpery . It is so rewarding to see the wildlife utilising my garden!
@HampshireKarin @Buglife

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A log with a hollow centre seen from above. Approaching the centre is a leafcutter bee carrying a section of a cut leaf.
Artists Garden
3 months ago

I love the garden in the early morning light or, as in this photograph, in the evening light. Just gone seven o’clock.

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The photograph shows a romantic garden densely planted with trees, shrubs, annuals and perennials. Layer upon layer, it is difficult to gauge the size of the garden. The scene is back-lit by the low evening sun. A curved, paved path is partially visible. To one side of the path is a small sculpture of a Venetian flying lion.
Artists Garden
3 months ago

Recently harvested garlic bulbs hung up to “cure” outdoors under a roof, therefore dry with excellent ventilation. Grown (see previous post) and cured this way, the garlic bulbs will last until very nearly next year’s harvest.
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Black & white photograph of bunches of garlic hung up to dry, closest in focus becoming blurred towards the vanishing point.
Artists Garden
3 months ago

Yesterday was garlic harvest. I am growing a softneck variety from Southern France in a no-dig bed and follow the traditional pattern, planting around the shortest day of the year and harvesting around the longest.

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A large quantity of freshly harvested garlic bulbs still with earth and their long leaves still attached are displayed in three containers sat on a grassy surface: a traditional wooden trug and two old, small, wooden crates originating from the late 1950s, all side by side and seen from above.
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3 months ago

Harvested the first of our own Calabrese (broccoli) this year.

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Photograph shows two freshly harvested heads of Calabrese (broccoli) displayed on a white and blue tea towel.
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3 months ago

Heavy rain woke me early this morning, an hour or so before getting up time. Lay in bed and listened to the rain for a while.
25 mm of rain in around three hours by seven o’clock, which is between a third and nearly half a month’s worth of rain.

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This black and white photograph shows raindrops on a window in focus with the garden blurry in the background. In the top left corner a spider’s web is partially visible.
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3 months ago

Salvia nemorosa 'Ostfriesland', Verbena bonariensis, Penstemon, Knautia macedonica and Digitalis in the corner of a border.

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Closely planted, crowded corner of a border. To the left part of a fruit tree is visible.
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3 months ago

Self-seeded Sorrel and planted Salvia nemorosa 'Ostfriesland'. Could not be better if I had planned it. Nature has created a perfect colour scheme again.
Upright format. Click to see it all.

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Self seeded flowering sorrel before flowering Salvia nemorosa.
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3 months ago

I am trying out a (new to me) technique to convert grass to a border. Covered the grass with a layer of cardboard and garden earth. By the time the cardboard has broken down, the grass should no longer want to come up. This is only a small strip to try out. No idea if this will work.

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The photograph shows a grassy area before a curved patio paved with Indian sandstone. The patio is filled with pots. On a strip of the grass is a layer or cardboard, partly covered with a wheelbarrow load of garden earth. To the side is an empty, green wheelbarrow.
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4 months ago

Surprising how quickly the first herb harvest of the year comes around. Air drying herbs is the best way to preserve them. From right to left: Lovage, Greek oregano (x 2), Savoury, Marjoram and Moroccan mint.

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The photograph shows six bunches of freshly harvested herbs hung up to dry from the cream painted wooden ceiling of my kitchen. They are tied to a bamboo cane, which is suspended from the ceiling.
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4 months ago

A bit hard to spot, look at the centre of the photograph: A pheasant investigates my greenhouse. He has been almost permanently living in the garden for several weeks.
I suppose he calls himself wildlife!

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In this photograph, a pheasant investigates inside a greenhouse. He is looking at pots and saucers, which are gathered on the floor.
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4 months ago

Baking bread is one of my “other things”. This rustic sourdough loaf is inspired by the French Pain de campagne.

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Close-up of the golden crust of a rustic country bread.
Close-up of the open crumb of a rustic country bread.
A round loaf, rustic country bread. The crunchy crust has lifted, where the bread was scored deeply before baking.
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5 months ago

Grey and rainy day. The perennials are getting bigger by the day, whilst the tulips still delight.

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A border, which is becoming filled with dense growth from perennials, with orange and dark wine red tulip flowers towering above. Raindrops are visible on the petals.
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5 months ago

I am SO excited. We hatched today!
Wild duck, who choses to have her nest in our garden. 12 healthy, strong ducklings. This individual successful third year in a row.
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A very proud looking female mallard duck leads her 12 newly hatched ducklings away from the nest and towards our garden pond. The ducklings are following their mother ‘in formation’.
A female mallard ducks with her 12 newly hatched ducklings on our garden wildlife pond. They are all grouped around their mother except one, who is exploring the pond. Ducks take their newly hatched ducklings immediately to water. This is important to strengthen their muscles before they walk to their final destination in the wild, where they will grow up.
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5 months ago

Good morning from the garden, beautiful friends.
More garden wildlife: Primrose Hedgeduck and her man at breakfast.

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Photograph of a pair of mallard ducks, male and female, eating from a ground feeder in my garden.
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6 months ago

This is Camillo. It is his birthday today. He is 14.

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Black and white portrait of a black and white cat sitting on a stone bench in the garden.