🌱 It’s official. The spring has started on our side of the planet.
🌱 Cuttings from our white butterfly bush, for planting out in the school garden later this year. A bit early in the season, but since new leaves already started to appear, I took my chances. 🤞
🌱🦔 I’m experimenting a bit more with live streaming from within our hedgehog house in the garden (via the excellent Open Broadcaster Software). It has been occupied for several nights already, so I have good hope that it will be used again for hibernation this winter.
🌱 I’m glad I took a moment to photograph some lovely autumn colours in our garden on this dreary Saturday morning. I’m also pretty impressed with Halide’s new computational macro feature.
🌱 Made a simple yet very tasty pumpkin soup from the biggest pumpkin we harvested from our garden.
🌱 Today’s harvest. Two different apple varieties, one pumpkin (variety unknown) and some more almonds.
🌱 First harvest of almonds from our garden.
🌱 This is one plant. Amazing how just one little pumpkin seed manages to take over almost our whole vegetable garden in only a few months!
🌱🦔 Making progress with a new version of our hedgehog garden camera. This time I’m hoping to get a live stream out of the IR illuminated hedgehog house interior, in addition to the outside cam I was using last year.
🌱 Fermented plum sauce made with the first harvest of plums from our own garden.
🌱 Can’t think of a better colour palette that captures the mood of this bright and friendly sunday morning.
🌱 Untainted pumpkin flower. Love the five-fold symmetry.
🌱 Our living room Melissa seems to be glowing because of the evening sun shining through its leaves.
🌱 Silhouette of a moth.
🌱 Lazy afternoon in the garden.
🌱 Fresh pumpkin tendril in the morning light. Fascinating phenomenon..!
“The mechanism of tendril coiling begins with circumnutation of the tendril […] and it serves the purpose of increasing the chance that the plant will come in contact with a support system.”
🌱 Found this little heroine underneath our picnic table. She managed to get to full bloom from between two garden tiles.💪
🌱 Billie the cat, greeting me from above.
🌱 Homegrown breakfast
🌱 Roasting aubergines in the wood stove in our garden.
🌱 Blooming goatsbeard in our garden.
🌱 Daily batch of raspberries from our garden.
🌱 The summer has yet to start, but the new pumpkins are already coming along nicely.
🦔🌱 Recently ‘our’ hedgehog woke up from hibernation. To help it get its strength up again, I made a cat-proof feeding station. Or so I thought: the entrance turned out to be too small, leading to some hilarious situations. And maybe a new friendship with one of our own cats..!
🌱 Just like some other older plants in our garden, our climbing hydrangea will be fully blooming for the first time. Maybe the more moderate temperatures feel more business as usual for them?
