OneGuyFromBarlick

Here’s a few seconds video to hopefully brighten your day.
Is it working...?

It downloaded and opened for me Cathy. Very good steady filming. Did you do it? Is it your yard?

Oh thankyou for having a look, I’m chuffed .
And it worked. Yaye .
Yes it is my back garden.
Can you hear the birdsong?

Hope one day to plant more plants into the ground, to make it more grounded and permanent, but it is clay soil and I can’t dig it. Will have to put my thinking cap on .

Hope it brightened your day.

I downloaded it Cathy but now I can't find it on my tablet...it must have slipped off the bottom of the screen and fallen to the floor.

IMG_5636.MOV Won't play on windows 10 unless you download and extra App from HEVC Video Extensions, £0.79p please. Sorry Cathy but my loathing of Microsoft overrides the pleasure of your posting.

Later, Installed VCL and got it free . Cathy. nice and tidy low maintenance garden. The walls look a bit high but you still get plenty of light, Bloody miserable here nothing but leaves coming down like snow flakes and of course the rain.

Cultivating clay.... If you were here you could turn it over with a two tine clay fork and let the frost break it down over winter. Don't know how it could be tackled in Oz!

plaques wrote: ↑24 Oct 2020, 08:39 IMG_5636.MOV Won't play on windows 10 unless you download and extra App from HEVC Video Extensions, £0.79p please. Sorry Cathy but my loathing of Microsoft overrides the pleasure of your posting.

Later, Installed VCL and got it free . Cathy. nice and tidy low maintenance garden. The walls look a bit high but you still get plenty of light, Bloody miserable here nothing but leaves coming down like snow flakes and of course the rain.

It played for me on Windows 10 and I don't have any extra video programs installed.

I had my front garden trimmed back today.

It’s amazing what a man with a chain-saw and a leaf blower can do.

I thought the Mahonia was worth getting my phone out for. Nice splash of colour on a drab day.

Our mahonias are like that too, been full of flowers for weeks now. They usually flower later but lots of plants are flowering now that didn't used to. Plenty of hebes in full flower. Cherries have been in flower for weeks. tender plants that would usually be put in for a year then discarded are in full flower. I saw a tortoiseshell butterfly in the garden today and on our walk we saw Fatsia japonica flowers covered in bees. On the radio this morning they said that swallows are now staying later instead of flying off to Africa but they're unlikely to survive here even in a mild winter because there won't be enough insects about.

That plant looks like a bully to me David! The sort that would retaliate if you approached it with a pair of secateurs!
I heard that news report about swallows as well Peter. Bad choice I reckon, I thought they had more sense than that!

Stanley wrote: ↑24 Nov 2020, 03:49 That plant looks like a bully to me David!

Yes- I call it Priti. I haven't told her yet but she'll be chopped back severely when the flowers have gone. I did it a few years ago when she prevented me from looking out of my (what I know now to be) oriel window.

It was bin day today, or two bin day actually ( household waste and green waste). Our neighbours have gone away and asked if I could do their bins and collect their mail, plus the morning paper. No problems at all. I never realised how big their house was to get all the way round to the other side to the gate, then all the way back across to our side of their back yard to collect the bins, drag them out to the road and deposit them back after the trucks had been. As I can only manage one bin at a time, it was quite a trek. Plus I had to do our bins as well.
Must have a sit down now with a cuppa and the free paper!

I have a Lilac like that David...

Do you still get the ‘local rag’ Marilyn?
We haven’t had them for yonks. I thought they had stopped publishing them.

What makes you so special?

No local rag Cazza. The neighbours said they hadn’t cancelled the paper (Advertiser), but they want it collected off the lawn, so a free read for us for a fortnight! Woohoo...freebie! ( I like the crosswords and puzzles). We only buy the paper once a week on a Saturday....

Ahh, that’s alright then.

Tripps wrote: ↑24 Nov 2020, 11:20 Yes- I call it Priti. I haven't told her yet but she'll be chopped back severely when the flowers have gone. I did it a few years ago when she prevented me from looking out of my (what I know now to be) oriel window.

Take note of the colour of the sap when you chop it back, Tripps - bright yellow! The `Bug Woman' says: `The wood of mahonia is bright yellow, and produces a dye of the same colour' LINK (Don't miss the last photo in that link! )

Sounds to me as though you should be wearing disposable gloves David!

Not much going on in the way of flowers except snow drops. We have millions of them so easy to multiply just leave them alone don't cut back the leaves. In other words just neglect them, Ideal for me.

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No celandine, Plaques? Lovely yellow flowers on the road verges here. There's been lots of plants here unexpectedly in flower over winter so far.

Tizer wrote: ↑27 Feb 2021, 16:59 No celandine, Plaques?

Not yet. I can live with them between the big trees where the choice is either them or moss but in the borders they are a bit of a nuisance with the tiny bulblets that spread everywhere if you try to take them out.

Here’s a corner of my garden , taken yesterday thru the window, so as not to scare the birds away.

(No that isn’t a snake on the pavers)

And a lovely pick ‘of someone else’s garden’ being visited by 6 Kookaburras and a Maggie.

Good job you said Cathy, it certainly looks like a snake.
Nothing happening here Ken.
Peter, we have one small patch of celandines in the shelter of a wall on The Green together with the usual crocuses.

It looks lovely Cathy, as do Ken's snowdrops.