I have trouble naming butterflies, but red admirals, tortoiseshells, peacocks, whites and even a little blue ivy butterfly were dancing merrily away in the garden, around the large buddleia.
Creating a garden is the first step in understanding how this old Earth works. The complexity of chains of relationships binding insects to flowers and bacterias to the soil creating webs of alliance in the dark substrata. We have upset the balance, by introducing herbicides and pesticides in our gardens and farms and we now bemoan the shrinking of the insect life, that feeds on and pollinates our food. Our scientists try to keep ahead of bacterias that change as soon as we produce another so called revolutionary cure for whatever. We see this in antibiotics as they become useless as our bodies build up a resistance against them. All I can say is that we learn slowly how to put things back to right.
So a garden is a living being able to respond to the light, air, rain and the mulch of dead matter that covers it in winter. This Earth has created a myriad creatures, I don't believe in the Gaian theory but I do understand the interrelationship of everything. We are slowly watching our large mammals disappear, elephants due to poaching, rhinos as well. Also the giraffe is on the danger list, the list goes on.
But on this sunny morning as we wait for the rain and storms to come, and the weatherman colours our area of Yorkshire and Derbyshire with yellow, and the people wait at Whalley Bridge to see if the dam will break, a warning that all is not well with the weather system in this world.
So a few garden photos will have to do, for I cannot create in the written word what is happening so different has it become through the decades I have lived.
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| Two bantams patrolling the lawn. They beat up a sparrow that could not fly yesterday - brutes. |
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| Shasta daisies and cosmos. The reason my subconscious mind planted white flower has to do with the white flowered buddleia planted in the middle of this bed. Weird how ones mind works... |
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| There was even a moth, not sure if it wasn't the hummingbird hawkmoth. But the speed of its wings said yes |
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| Painted lady... |
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| It is like eating little sweets |
The last two photos grew quite unexpectedly in empty pots the above looks like some sort of squash, the other two plants look like sunflowers.
Our little tomatoes are coming in and so delicious. Our yellow larger tomatoes are great as well. Best time of the year for the veggies.
ReplyDeleteHome grown are always the best, but I am getting a little tired of runner beans!
DeleteThanks for sharing your most recent garden pictures and some of your feelings about so-called "progress".
ReplyDeleteThe problem with humans is that they are clever (well a few are) at keeping ahead of the problems but then they create more problems trying to cure everything.
DeleteI love surprises in pots! Obviously you have not had the sheer volume of water there that we have here - many of the houses in our village have been ruined by flood water. My bungalow is on a steep slope and the water rushed through the garden leaving a lot of silt behind but not flooding anywhere. Heavy rain again this ev ening.
ReplyDeleteIt is terrible having flood water run through the house, you were lucky it escaped through the garden. We had a couple of storms last night but the rain was light. We have a river about 30 feet from the house but it has been banked.
ReplyDeleteI love the toes of your wellies appearing beside what must surely be sunflowers. I don't have cosmos this year and miss them--I didn't locate the seed saved from the garden at the farm. White flowers intrigue me, especially those having a hint of green at their hearts. Your chickens look like large-bosomed madams!
ReplyDeleteHi Sharon, they are very noisy bantams but produce good little eggs. Today I put on a dress, tired of seeing myself in jeans and wellingtons. Needed in this rain of course,also have been chopping down several virginia creepers, that have decided to take off elsewhere.
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