A day of ups and downs at The Farm.
Ups:
- In the orchard two of the new apples trees, Tom Putt and Farmer’s Glory, have unexpected blossom.
- A pretty adolescent cat lurked about the site, tortoiseshell and rather timid.
- The quince tree beautifully floriferous.
- Plug plants arrived, including Pelargonium ‘Orange Fizz’ and Lophos ‘Wine Red’.
- I found an ancient animal skull, bleached white.
- Misty the lamb lolled unashamedly in the sunshine.
- Planting out and potting on.
- An end-of-play ice lolly.
- Close examination of the understated, deepest maroon, flowers of a variegated pittosporum, sweetly scented. Some of these blooms have already been visited by pollinators, their berries swelling at the base.
Downs:
- Rabbits
- Bunnies
- Peter Cottontail
- Flopsy
- Harvey
- Roger
- The White One
- Bugs
If only they didn’t look so adorable, that is a weapon I cannot fight against.
Off The Edge Gardening 
You need to see if you can get Charles Hawes (Veddw House Garden and hubby of the renowned, Bad-Tempered Gardener, Anne Wareham) to pop across. He has an all-consuming aversion to bunnywabbits and has been known to indulge in a spot of early morning naked rabbit shooting. So you would get a modicum of extermination with a modicum of entertainment (if you were up early). And some photos (he’s also a photographer, you know), though no early morning selfies.
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For the avoidance of doubt, it wasn’t the bunnywabbits wot was naked.
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Glad you cleared that up.
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But why is he naked?
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He saw da bunnywabbit before he got dressed. I said “all-consuming”. No bunnywabbit gets to chomp on his borders!
Here, resident cat takes care of invading bunnywabbits and I keep my clothes on outdoors.
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Glad to hear it! What they need is a couple of good old rough and ready farm cats. That will keep the numbers down. Or a leopard perhaps.
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Looks like a good balance 🙂
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Ah, the wonderful scents of spring! Went for a walk with a friend yesterday and we passed by a Korean spice Viburnum. Delicious!
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Sounds lovely, glad we are back on track 🙂
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Downs = Bunnies here, too. I need the stoat back. See next blog!
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There was a stoat at The Farm, think he may have turned veggie! 😦
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