Tuesday, 29 September 2009

Summer memories

I thought I would post a couple of photos which I took in the summer in my Grandma's garden. I completely forgot about these few photos, and it was only until recently that I came across them again. Her garden was really colourful at the time, and the flowers were all out. In the summer sun, it looked brilliant...

As you can see from the photos, the flowers look stunning. They were on an arch at the end of the garden. The bees were loving them too. I think these are the only real decent photos I have taken of the bees. Sometimes, it is only when you look at the photos on the computer that you realise if the photo is any good. I'm not sure of the ID of the flowers, so any help on that would be great.

Its difficult to imagine what her garden looks like now in the autumn, without the bright colours which we saw in the summer. Because of the time of year, not much bird life was to be seen around her garden, except a few Dunnocks and Woodpigeons. Maybe the birds have started to visit her feeders again now that the days are cooler and shorter.

At home, we have really seen a lot of action on the bird feeders recently, and we have had to fill them up very regularly. Hopefully, our camera nestbox will be re-located to the end of the garden soon in case we get any roosting Blue or Great Tits as the weather gets cooler. I may soon talk of a certain visitor to our garden shed recently too.

5 comments:

Angie Moore said...

A lovely post Joe and photos.

Liz said...

The flowers are Passion flower... flowers.

We have them here, and no their fruit isn't edible... sorry :D

Jayne said...

Beautiful passion flowers and bees!

Linda Yarrow said...

Hi joe, Lovely pictures. We have the same plant, Passion flower and ours is still flowering. They will continue to flower until it really does get cold, probably when the frosts start.

Joe said...

Hi Angie, Liz, Jayne, Lyn, and Laura, thanks for your comments:

Angie- Thanks for that, glad you enjoyed this post.

Liz- Thanks for the ID. To most people, this will have been very obvious, but i'm still new to plants. Thanks again for that. Glad you enjoyed this post

Jayne- Thank you for the comment, yes they really were beautiful

Lyn- Thanks for that, I had no idea that they could still be flowering in her garden now. They look fantastic don't they?

I checked out your blog and I loved it. Great Chiffchaff photos there, an impressive sighting.

Laura- Thanks, glad this cheered you up! :)