we love the goldfinches that come to feed on the niger seed...along with siskins, green finches, bull finches as well as dunnocks, sparrows, wrens, blackbirds, robins, blue tits, great tits, coal tits, starlings, doves, wood pigeons...and it seems our list grows each week~we feel so lucky. but i wish the crows were bold enough to come down.
evergreen honeysuckle 'halliana', it is the same as we had in our garden in dorset and the smell of it when flowering would drift in the evening air~fingers crossed for the same with this one. the other climber is a semi-evergreen...
rosa banksiae 'lutea' or more commonlly know as a yellow banksia rose
some general plants, including my favorite calendula...the frame for the honeysuckle was made by swampy with hazel branches i brought with me from dorset...we had a 10 foot one to hold up our washing line and i am now wishing i had brought that with me too
the grass seed is coming along nicely~it actually looks even better now, i must take a new photo! we put plenty down, enough for grass and the birds.
tomorrow is shopping day which means our weekly trip to the farm shop where we will buy a few more small plants to start filling in the gaps
5 comments:
I absolutely love the homemade honeysuckle tresill - how pretty. Good luck with your new gardens. I know, for me, gardening is one of the simplest pleasures.
The picture of the birds is absolutely awesome.
Love the photo of the goldfinches - we've only seen greenfinches so far this year. I also have a honeysuckle outside the lounge window, and the scent is just amazing on a warm summer night. I've never had a late flowering one though, so I might look out for one next time I'm at the garden centre.
Willow x
I got some varigated ivy for you, I'll bring tommorrow.
Hoppityx
...how interesting...what you call Goldfinches are quite different from ours...ours are in the process of dressing in their summer glad rags...I'll post a picture of them soon....love the homemade trellis...can't wait to see the "blooms"....
The garden is coming along very well, Swampy is obviously working very hard, ably assisted by Cody:) It's never easy starting from scratch with a neglected garden. Great picture of the goldfinches, they are attractive birds. This is the first winter that I've had them in the garden regularly and I'm thrilled to bits.
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