A Photo A Day - No. 332

Pergola Pots
I've had a tidy up under the back pergola
Mints - Ginger and Chocolate,
Tarragon and Bergamot in pots,
Salad boxes of Lebanese cress, Lettuce,
Parsley, Chives, Basil and Egyptian Mint.

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Thirsty Huntsman
Water from last night's quick storm
has attracted this spider
He'd better be careful,
the last one that did this drowned!

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Santolina chamaecyparissus syn S. incana
See Here for more info.

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Drying Apricots

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Hollyhocks!
The Hollyhocks are blooming!

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First Apricots
Ready a couple of weeks early this year.
Yummy!

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Papilio (Eleppone) anactus
Dingy or Dainty Swallowtail
See fact sheet here

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Beans
With this weeks rainfall and warm weather,
the beans have outgrown their cover.
They are big enough now to fend off those grasshoppers!

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Ninja and Deenie
Ninja isn't quite sure what to make of this chook
that's always out in 'her' garden.

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The Season's First Sunflower

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Crested Pigeon - Ocyphaps lophotes
More 'Top Knots' visiting,
in the evening this time,
up in the Almond tree!

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Spider's Web
I was watching this spider on it's web last night...

Looks like it caught dinner!

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A Sea of Shade Cloth
That's what it felt like,
sewing the hems for more shade covers in the garden.

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Today's Changing Sky

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Bean Cover
Back here I said that the new beans needed covering,
It's working well at keeping the grasshoppers off
The beans will be big enough soon to withstand
the hopper attack!

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Ninja in Action
More fast paced action shots of Ninja!
Doc took these photos tonight.

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Cactus Flowers
In flower again and I took so many photos,
I decided to have a play with PSP!

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Stripy
One of the ivy geraniums I've
potted up for the Garden Club stall this month.

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Water Lily 2

The waterlily is now fully open!

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Sunset
Last night the sky seemed to glow.

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Beans
The newly planted Blue Lake climbing beans
are bursting through...
...but now I'll have to cover them
to protect them from grasshopper attack!!!

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First Corn
The Dwarf Sweetcorn is just emerging.

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Rain Growth
Last week's rain has brought the garden to life.
After a very dry winter
I though the comfrey was dead,
there was just no sign of it re-shooting this year...
...but here it comes.

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Water Lily
The first water lily for this season is just about to open.

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Young Apostlebird
This little fellow was out the front with the gang

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Pacesetter Tomatoes
Living up to their name
and setting fruit already.

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Hello Blackie!
Old girl Blackie out for the day...
Peaking round a star picket.

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Wet Doc
Doc went to explore the rain...
...all 45mm of it!!!!

And just had to stop for a play!!!

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Rain!!!!
These are yesterday's photos
It was too stormy for the computers to be on
Ninja was happy to see her water bowl full...

Except that she couldn't get out of her house
to drink it!

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Borage - Borago officinalis
The flowers of the herb Borage
look like stars to me!