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Post by Hoodedclaw on Jan 27, 2008 14:23:12 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jan 27, 2008 14:28:46 GMT
Its lovely my sort of garden  I dont like gardens that are all neat and tidy i like them to look full to bursting and yours ticks every box..Love the little pond do you get frogs  I love the arch way its brilliant.. |
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Post by Hoodedclaw on Jan 27, 2008 14:42:54 GMT
Thanks, I hate tidy gardens too. Got frogs and newts in pond within a fortnight of putting it in, when i turned it from a kids garden to mine 3 years ago. Entire garden cost under a fiver, and is still a work in progress  |
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Post by kedigato on Jan 27, 2008 15:00:23 GMT
I like your garden too, HC. It is what I would call "tidy chaos", and what I would like too but Hubby prefers the tidy-tidy sort. Since he does nearly all of the gardening ................
The frogs and newts appeared very quickly in your pond, they must like the little nooks and crannies around it to hide in.
I can count 5 bird feeders in that big tree (what is it BTW?) and then the free-standing bird feeding house, plus the bird house in the tree. You must be way ahead of all of us.
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Post by Hoodedclaw on Jan 27, 2008 15:11:10 GMT
I have a very old cooking apple tree, pies and crumble galore in late summer early autumn. I have to have that much food up in the tree or the starlings have it all their own way There are few other places for them around where i live because most people seem to love 'concrete' |
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Post by mikkel on Jan 27, 2008 17:52:14 GMT
There is by far, too much land that has now been concreted over. near to where I was born in Essex, they want to build 1,000+ houses on Green Belt. I will find a picture of the area that I have an place it on the forum for you all to see. It truly is Beautiful and the Council want to build on it. UGH!!! |
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Post by windy on Jan 28, 2008 5:03:00 GMT
Lovely garden Hood...wish mine was mature like that. Love the arch  |
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Post by kedigato on Jan 28, 2008 19:19:41 GMT
Since it is a cooking apple tree (lucky you!), please try out my Advent Apple Cake next time the apples are ripe, HC. It is posted in the Recipe section, under Desserts, Cakes and Breads.
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Post by Admin on Jan 29, 2008 12:20:52 GMT
I love cooking apples too buy lots from supermarket i like to make a cake with a layer of apple a layer of fruit sandwiched between cake and crunble on the top fancy some now writing this..
Its a disgrace building on land when their is plenty of land inner city..grrrrrrrrrrr
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Post by Hoodedclaw on Feb 8, 2008 17:30:17 GMT
Since it is a cooking apple tree (lucky you!), please try out my Advent Apple Cake next time the apples are ripe, HC. It is posted in the Recipe section, under Desserts, Cakes and Breads. I will deifinitely be trying it out, thankyou |
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Post by Hoodedclaw on Feb 19, 2008 15:19:34 GMT
Few pics of pond coming to life, and some frogspawn which magically appeared between 8-11 Sat morn   |
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Post by kedigato on Feb 19, 2008 16:40:12 GMT
Everything is looking good, HC. You are further along than we are over here. I haven't even sighted a frog or toad yet.
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Post by Admin on Feb 20, 2008 4:38:46 GMT
I saw this post and my first thought was run look in my pond quick.. I had loads of spawn last spring ..Hope i get some soon ...keep us informed of whats going on .. |
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Post by Hoodedclaw on Feb 25, 2008 17:54:23 GMT
Well the frogs have been really busy this week, saw 4 pairs together in my pond on Fri night and they have been very busy. Here are a few pics of the result of their getting togther    Something tells me theire is a tad too much spawn for my pond to sustain, survival of the fittest me thinks over the coming months. |
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Post by Hoodedclaw on Feb 25, 2008 18:09:38 GMT
This is my view of my garden, when i do the washing up   |
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