Flowers and plants – Page 16 – Jill Orme Photography

20 Mar 2021

Style

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Flowers and plants, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

I thought that by now you might be bored with photos of hairy-footed flower bees feeding from pulmonaria flowers, so instead I present one feeding – with great style, I think – from a flower of my Daphne odora ‘Aureomarginata’. … Continued

13 Mar 2021

Chunky

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Flowers and plants, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

It was another cold and blustery day, and I was tired and sore after my pruning efforts yesterday, so I gave myself a pass from doing any more work in the garden and spent most of the day at my … Continued

12 Mar 2021

Approach

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Flowers and plants, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

I had a productive day today. This morning I went to Evesham (for the first time since early December, I think), to renew my driver’s licence at the Post Office. I’d been nervous about this beforehand, but the member of … Continued

10 Mar 2021

Cheerful

by JDO | posted in: Flowers and plants | 0

This is what you might call an emergency garden centre blip. Almost unbelievably, given the lovely spring sunshine of yesterday, we dived back into November today – and a stormy November at that. I thought quite seriously at one point … Continued

5 Mar 2021

Full stretch

by JDO | posted in: Flowers and plants, My garden, Trees, Worcestershire | 0

It was another horrible day, weather-wise, and I spent most of it at my desk trying to clear a mountainous backlog of processing. I ventured out into the garden at lunch time for the sole purpose of taking a photo, … Continued

28 Feb 2021

Humming

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Flowers and plants, Invertebrates, Trees, Worcestershire | 0

R and I had another heavy session in the garden today, working on and around two overgrown and neglected apple trees. He did most of the de-brambling, and I did most of the pruning, and between us we returned them … Continued

27 Feb 2021

Plump

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Flowers and plants, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

R and I spent almost the whole day in the garden, and though I’m tired now I’m very happy with our achievements. We cut back and tidied the whole of the long front border – possibly the first time this … Continued

23 Feb 2021

Spring blossom

by JDO | posted in: Flowers and plants, Trees, Worcestershire | 0

Had I shaped myself and gone out first thing, I could have photographed this cherry plum blossom in lovely warm early spring sunshine. There’s a reasonable chance that I’d have found some invertebrates too. Sadly, by the time I peeled … Continued

21 Feb 2021

Bee watch

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Flowers and plants, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

It begins. I’ve been on bee watch for a few days now, since I saw the first photos of hairy-footed flower bees appearing in the BWARS group on Facebook. The immediate response from one of the administrators – “And we’re … Continued

20 Feb 2021

Spot

by JDO | posted in: Bugs, Flowers and plants, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

Spot the leafhopper on the spotty hellebore. I’ll confess right now that I didn’t, or I’d have homed in on it and tried to bring you a better photo, but in my defence I was contorted into an almost impossible … Continued

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