garden – Fooyah – Ian Parish

July 26 2016July 26 2016

Kentish Garden

Took a trip out to Sissinghurst in deepest darkest Kent. It’s a National Trust garden and although billed as a Castle Garden, there wasn’t much of a castle.

It was a nice few hours spent wandering around and see stuff. As someone who isn’t that bothered by plants I guess some of it was lost on me at a deep level. There were plenty of people stopping and smelling and touching the flowers but I didn’t. Yes, they look nice but I’m just not interested.

Here’s a gallery of green.

On a walk around the lakes there was a little door in the bank. How strange.

There did seem to be quite a few German visitors and this pleased me, the Germans coming over and spending their money, although granted it’s not as much money as before the referendum.

April 6 2014April 6 2014

Vegetable Patch 2014

Planted the vegetables for this year. It’s a disgrace really as I don’t eat them and neither do the kids but I think it’s important for them to see stuff grow.
This year we have:
Sweetcorn
Onions
Carrots
Potatoes

The potatoes are in round pots to try and keep them contained:

We have the rest planted in the ground. The silver plant container has chestnut trees we planted last autumn.

April 4 2014April 5 2014

Spring

Just a picture I took in the HM Garden.

July 1 2013July 1 2013

Vegetables 2013

This year’s vegetables are growing well. I’m looking forward to carrots, parsnips and tomatoes later in the summer.

May 26 2013May 26 2013

Slow Worm – Summer 2013

Here’s our resident slow-worm showing off in the afternoon sun. It’s about 30cm long and was found near an ants’ nest. Is that what they eat? Don’t know.

March 5 2013March 5 2013

Crocus

Saw this earlier today in the sunshine and it warmed me through. So nice to see spring flowers and sunshine. It’s been rather grey for the last few months.
A garden in Kent:

March 3 2013March 3 2013

Not Green Fingers

Just spent a wonderfully pleasant hour with #1 son sowing seeds in the garden. We tidied the vegetable patch and got rid of the weeds and then planted this year’s selection of veg. It’s going to be carrots, parsnips and chillies. I don’t think the chillies are going to survive the cold so I’ll get some more and grow them inside.

We also read the instructions for the tomatoes and are actually going to grow them inside. They are on the kitchen window sill.

October 29 2012

Home Grown

Picture of a spider we found at the bottom of the garden. It was about 20 mm long in the body.

September 1 2012

Slow Worm

Here’s a picture of a slow worm I found in the garden. It was hiding below the wheelie bin and then basked in the sun for a little while before wandering off.

June 28 2012

For Daddy

Here’s a flower that my son picked for me. It was beautiful.

June 9 2012

Growing Up

So, after a few weeks this is how the vegetable patch is starting to look. There’s cabbage and maize.

And here’s our tomato collection. The problem is how to stop the dog eating the ripe toms.

June 9 2012

Cress

Along with the veg patch we are now growing cress in the kitchen. Really looking forward to harvest time.

June 4 2012June 4 2012

Hanging Basket

A friend of WW made this lovely hanging basket for us. Nice.

May 28 2012

Reptile!

This communication was going to be called Snake! but it turns out this would have been very incorrect. Last night once my boys were in bed we noticed a “snake” in the garden.

It’s a shame that my boys weren’t awake to see it. I think they would have been fascinated. WW took these photos and then I looked on a website to see what kind of snake it was. Turns out it’s a slow worm and not a real snake. Just a lizard that has evolved in such a way as to remove its legs.