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Day 176

June 25, 2019Posted in 365, B&W, flowers, Flowers, Fuji X100F, nature, PhotographyTagged 365, 365 project, Black&white, day176, Fraggle, Fujifilm X100F, June2019, orchid, Photography12 Comments

I’m having a new Orchid experience. Usually, I buy an orchid, look after it, it flowers for about 3 months, the flowers drop off and then that’s it. On one occasion one of them flowered again after an 18 month rest, but mostly they don’t. I give them 3 years and figure if they haven’t re-flowered by then they never will, then consign them to compost and get a replacement. I’m sure I’m doing something wrong but am buggered if I know what. One of my Orchids though has confounded this by flowering again when it hasn’t stopped flowering the first time! My white orchid has had 4 flowers on it for a couple of months which are still going strong, but I noticed this week it’s grown a new branch with buds on it right next to one of the flowers. They are strange creatures.

Also, thanks to everyone enquiring about my health, I am much improved and felt loads better today! Yipee!

Day 161

June 10, 2019Posted in 365, B&W, flowers, Fuji X100F, PhotographyTagged 365, 365 project, Black&white, day161, Fraggle, Fujifilm X100F, orchid12 Comments

Day 158

June 7, 2019Posted in 365, B&W, flowers, Flowers, Fuji X100F, nature, PhotographyTagged 365, 365 project, beebombs, Black&white, day158, Fraggle, Fujifilm X100F, Photography14 Comments

It’s been a busy day in the garden at Fraggle Towers. Phil has dug up some of our lawn for me to make a bee sanctuary, i.e a big patch of wild flowers, and I’ve been to the garden center to buy log roll and a couple of flowers and herbs. This year for some reason we have quite a few sparrows and blackbirds nesting in our leilandi hedge and our jasmine plant, so baby chicks all over the shop. Also a goldfinch brought one of her chicks to the niger feeder but I wasn’t quick enough to get the camera before she flew off lesson learned, leave it nearby at all times!

Beebombs are cool, don’t have to do much except stick them on top of cleared ground, there are wildflower seeds in each bomb, which are encased in nutrient-rich soil and then clay, you chuck them on the ground and hey presto, wildflowers specifically that bees love. Well not hey presto as they are slow growing, and I won’t see any results until next spring, but I can wait. I exhort you all to buy a pack. I read today that a huge survey of bees across Europe has just been analysed and the bees are declining way too fast.

Day 152

June 1, 2019Posted in 365, B&W, flowers, Flowers, FujiX-T2, macro, nature, Photography, UncategorizedTagged 365, 365 project, Black&white, day152, Fraggle, FujiX-T2, plant19 Comments

This is a bit of a cheat as these are all colour shots apart from the feature image, but it’s a follow on from a post over from Petes blog (CLICK HERE) regarding plant identification. Am hoping Jude can come up with the answer, but if anyone else has any idea, do chip in!

Day 140

May 20, 2019Posted in 365, B&W, flowers, Flowers, Fuji X100F, PhotographyTagged 365, 365 project, Black&white, day140, Fraggle, Fujifilm X100F, may2019, orchid, Photography17 Comments

Got a new orchid to play with. At least until I kill it.

Day 137

May 17, 2019May 17, 2019Posted in 365, B&W, flowers, Flowers, Fuji X100F, nature, PhotographyTagged 365, 365 project, azalea, Black&white, flower, Fraggle, Fujifilm X100F, Photography6 Comments

A couple a days ago I posted a shot of my azalea…

today it burst into flower, and the bright red petal thingies have turned pink!

Now for some fun facts about azaleas, well Ok, ONE fun fact!

Azaleas are really toxic! The leaves and nectar contain something called andromedatoxins, which sends you doolally. In some parts of Turkey they deliberately feed bees on it (how da fook anyone makes a bee do anything deliberately is beyond me, I can’t even get one to find it’s way out of my conservatory when it gets in there, no matter how much I shout at it) anyway I digress. The bonkers Turks feed the bees on the azaleas, and the bees then produce a mind-altering, potentially medicinal, and occasionally lethal honey known as “mad honey”. According to the ancient Roman historian Pliny the Elder in his Natural History, an army invading a place in Turkey called Pontus, was poisoned with such honey, resulting in their defeat. I suppose it’s cheaper than AK47’s and the like.

Seriously Turkey people, smoke a J instead, let the bees be! 🐝

Day 134

May 14, 2019Posted in 365, B&W, flowers, Flowers, FujiX-T2, macro, PhotographyTagged 365, 365 project, Black&white, day134, Fraggle, FujiX-T2, macro, Photography, plant, red11 Comments

How annoying, 2 days of sunshine and I’m working on both of them! Of course the weather will change for the worse on my days off. Sigh. Never mind, I’m used to it 🙂

Today I photographed the new plant in the garden. Can’t remember what it is, a hydrangea I think. It was flowering very prettily when we bought it, lovely pale pink petals. So I was surprised to see IN YOUR FACE RED petals beginning to open up this week.

Day 119

April 29, 2019Posted in 365, B&W, flowers, Fuji X100F, PhotographyTagged 365, 365 project, Black&white, day119, Fraggle, Fujifilm X100F, orchid, Photography, sunshine14 Comments

There must always be orchids. Caught mine communing with the sun.

Day 90

March 31, 2019April 4, 2019Posted in 365, B&W, flowers, Flowers, FujiX-T2, macro, nature, PhotographyTagged 365, 365 project, Black&white, day90, flowers, Fraggle, FujiX-T2, macro, Mothers Day, Photography, tulips11 Comments

I got some tulips for mothers day.

Day 87 & other stuff

March 28, 2019Posted in 365, B&W, birds, flowers, Fuji X100F, FujiX-T2, Mundanity, nature, PhotographyTagged 365, 365 project, Black&white, blossom, day87, Fraggle, Fujifilm X100F, FujiX-T2, goldfinch, Mundanity, Photography21 Comments

Oh such a lovely sunny day today, but Thursdays are chore days at Fraggle Towers. Much hoovering, washing, cleaning, baking and floor mopping going on.

But always a few moments to find some light and shade

can’t resist some colour because my blossom tree is laden with flowers and it’s too pretty not to share.

The blossom tree is known here as the Happy Eater tree, and regular readers will know I have feeding stations for the birds hung in its branches. Though I had a niger seed holder on it for a few years I only saw goldfinches once on it. This quite annoys me as I see a few flitting around where we live and can’t see what their problem is, none of the spuggies, tits, blackbirds etc have a problem and are constantly visiting. So I moved the niger feeder to the back garden and it’s hung there now for two years, and though the finches fly over my garden, they’ve resolutely ignored it.

Until yesterday evening.

TA DA!!

Not the greatest picture, I was hiding behind blinds and shooting through a window plus it was sundown time, but I was so excited to see them up close. At last. Fingers crossed for a return visit!