Wild bees documentary

Watching "My garden of a 1000 bees" on BBC Four just now.

Absolutely amazing footage, do watch it , if you can!

We have some of the solitary bee species here, but I didn't know about a lot of the ones featured in this programme.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002t686

Cleaning the Gabriel Ash mini greenhouse

Some of you may remember I was given a lovely  Gabriel Ash wall standing mini greenhouse to review, back in 2014

Sadlly due to   being bitten by a Blandford fly   and having to be hospitalised, the mini greenhouse didn't get put together until 2015.

It's been   moved around the patio  a couple of times, but settled into it's current position about 10 years ago.

I've found it invaluable to be a half way house between seedlings that need to be in the porch and plants that can go into the cold frames inside the polytunnel, before being finally planted out in the polytunnel.

It's also a good greenhouse for herbs and overwintering plants.

Anyway, it gets used as a bit of a dumping ground for stuff overwinter, and hasn't had a good clean inside and out for several years so, as today has been bright and sunny I got cleaning.

I emptied out various pots and trays last night and put them in the polytunnel.

(Which is one of the next big jobs for me to do , giving it a good tidy up, and washing the cover!)

Today, Compostman took out the top panes of glass, which were absolutely filthy, and with them out I could get inside the greenhouse to scrub all the glass.

I scrubbed inside and out, as well as cleaning the wooden shelves.

I got VERY wet and splattered with dirty water!

All back together, nice and clean , ready for plants 😀

Grass mown yesterday, and when I'd finished getting wet and dirty  I sat in the sun and listened to the birdsong.

I do so love it here.

Bright Blessings to all

Spring Equinox blessings to all!

Pruning the Cider mill

This is what the front Cider mill looked like, the little branches used to grow berries for the birds, but no longer and the branches are looking increasingly sick.

So , after checking very very carefully for nesting birds, I , one branch at a time, cut off the diseased branches.

Looks much better now, hoping it will rejuvenate the ivy to sprout new growth.

Picking daffodils

The gales and hard rain we had on Thursday knocked down a lot of daffodils in the garden (the wild ones in the wood, being short stemmed, didn't get flattened )

So I went and picked an armful of the knocked down ones, to bring inside.

 Better me enjoying them, than the slugs munching on them (there's still plenty for them to eat, though 😉)