garden – Page 93 – Jill Orme Photography

11 Apr 2020

Green and gold

by JDO | posted in: Hoverflies, Invertebrates, My garden, Trees, Worcestershire | 0

It’s difficult now to believe that we endured such a long, wet, and dreary winter: the past couple of weeks have been so dry, sunny and warm that by this morning the garden was parched and I had to water … Continued

10 Apr 2020

Tawny

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

I wouldn’t normally try to photograph a small bee with a long lens, except for recording purposes, and I only used the big gear today because the solitary bees were being more skittish than usual, and I was trying to … Continued

9 Apr 2020

Cambrian poppy

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

One of the colourful pleasures of spring in our garden is the orange Cambrian poppy that grows on the top of the yard wall. Because the wall is nearly six feet tall it’s not the easiest thing to photograph, so … Continued

8 Apr 2020

Buffish

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

Bee of the day: Andrena nigroaenea, the buffish mining bee. I’ve always thought the common name was strange: why buffish? Buff is a pale brown colour, and buffish suggests something that’s ‘sort of’ pale brown. These striking bees aren’t ‘sort … Continued

7 Apr 2020

Sparkly

by JDO | posted in: Invertebrates, My garden, Sawflies, Worcestershire | 0

I sometimes find myself wondering what the neighbours (who are using their lockdown time to build some kind of garden structure) think of the conversations that drift over from our side of the fence. Today I spent a while explaining … Continued

6 Apr 2020

Tree bee

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

Today the invertebrate explosion I’ve been waiting for finally happened, and suddenly the garden was busy with bees and hoverflies. It wasn’t a great day for macro photography though, with a brisk wind blowing, and scudding clouds crossing the sun … Continued

4 Apr 2020

Aucuba

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

I spent the afternoon gardening (eeeurgh), clearing the large rose bed of barrow-loads of geum, couch grass, goosegrass, and herb robert, as well as the bramble, ivy, and self-sown saplings that are an inevitable problem in a large, wooded garden. … Continued

3 Apr 2020

What day is it?

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

No, seriously – is it…..? No, it can’t be Tuesday because I remember doing Tuesday about five days ago. And we had pizza on Wednesday, so that’s already been and gone. So is it…? Oh – no….. they collected the … Continued

2 Apr 2020

Viburnum

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

Today’s post is a small morality tale. We’ve been in this house for twenty years, during which time I have always wanted a pond, and R has never wanted a pond (even though he liked the pond we had at … Continued

1 Apr 2020

Cherry blossom

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

Today’s blossom comes to you courtesy of an old and largely unproductive cherry tree that lurks at the far end of our wild garden. While scouting around for subjects on a dark and dreary day, I noticed that it had … Continued

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