Animals in your garden

[Treblot84]

 

[vette-kid]

Love the blue butterfly... And the walking stick. Hadn't seen I've of those in a long time, maybe they don't like the heat?

 

[Treblot84]

 

[Henderson]

When taking down a hanging basket that was finally dying off from the cooler nights, I was cutting off the long trailing parts and spotted a pretty moth in the middle: a White-Lined Sphinx Moth or Hummingbird Moth. The funny thing is that I've been trying to entice these to my yard with Moonflowers the last 2 years, never thought I'd find one resting in a dying out basket. It finally took off around dusk, but I didn't get a chance to see it hovering over any flowers to get any pics of it flying.

 

[Gail_68]

Smashing close ups Treblot but I must admire your staff after losing mine 2yrs ago last month.

 

[alp]

View attachment 46071 When taking down a hanging basket that was finally dying off from the cooler nights, I was cutting off the long trailing parts and spotted a pretty moth in the middle: a White-Lined Sphinx Moth or Hummingbird Moth. The funny thing is that I've been trying to entice these to my yard with Moonflowers the last 2 years, never thought I'd find one resting in a dying out basket. It finally took off around dusk, but I didn't get a chance to see it hovering over any flowers to get any pics of it flying.

What a beautiful photo!

 

[alp]

Smashing close ups Treblot but I must admire your staff after losing mine 2yrs ago last month.

Welcome to the forum, @Gail_68 !​

 

[Gail_68]

Welcome to the forum, @Gail_68 !​

Thank you alp

 

[Sean Regan]

Welcome from me too!

 

[Gail_68]

Welcome from me too!

Hi Sean and hows your lovely garden doing and your Acers

 

[Sean Regan]

Hi Sean and hows your lovely garden doing and your Acers

Well, its doing quite well though not a lot of colour at the moment apart from Green.

The berries on the Sorbus, a few roses, fuschias and some hebes, provide the last of the colours.

The garden looks best in the Spring

 

[Gail_68]

Totally stunning and you know I've always loved your garden..your lawns lovely after the summer we've had.

I'm hoping to get out on the front tomorrow the amount of leaves plus half the streets and we've had some bad winds tonight.

 

[Sean Regan]

Thanks for your kind words.

I'm filling the green bin most weeks at the moment with leaves I lot more to come down from the wisterias and those from next door's "forest trees."

 

[Gail_68]

Thanks for your kind words.

I'm filling the green bin most weeks at the moment with leaves I lot more to come down from the wisterias and those from next door's "forest trees."

They're true words total beauty which gives off a total serene quality.
Your wisterias are lovely they do makes gorgeous climbers, I noticed we have the same garden lights but mine are smaller are your potted plants by your home going in the garden?

 

[Sean Regan]

They're true words total beauty which gives off a total serene quality.
Your wisterias are lovely they do makes gorgeous climbers, I noticed we have the same garden lights but mine are smaller are your potted plants by your home going in the garden?

Everything on the patio stays where it is....Well not quite, all the dozen ceramic pots actually on the patio are on pot movers so they can easily be re-positioned. My wife who has MS, though still mobile on crutches, spends a lot of time in her chair in the lounge. From there she has a good view of the garden through our full-width French windows. We only have roses in those pots now and those can be moved so she can choose which are nearest the windows. There's also a Mimosa in a big tub which will flower soon.

Each pot mover has a hole drilled in the middle so that surplus water can drain out in the Winter. I put a dab of siicone over the hole in the Spring so when watered, any excess stays in the pot mover. In Summer the heat bouncing off the York stone patio can quicky dry out the pots.

Roses "out of favour" join the the two Mayleen clematis against the fence on our drive. If they are "completely out of favour" or performing poorly they end up in the green bin. Those lavenders ether side of it ended up in it.