tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547505703081839636.post3502293236343928493..comments2024-03-27T13:44:47.825+01:00Comments on Chateau Moorhen..... goes south!: November blues, and still those nasturtiums keep on goingMillymollymandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12990749863025598526noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547505703081839636.post-56101024507557904482015-12-03T11:32:27.615+01:002015-12-03T11:32:27.615+01:00Hiya Roy - sorry for delay replying. Yesterday I w...Hiya Roy - sorry for delay replying. Yesterday I was having all the fun of a colonoscopy.... :-)<br /><br />Personally I think Oct is a brilliant month as there are still some bugs and butterflies around, as well as the great leaf colours, but it depends on what you want to blog about! If it's mostly birds that can obviously be different. I don't see many winter birds, but then again a lot of summer birds here seem to go into hiding and so I am seeing song thrushes in the garden again and loads of robins which seem to disappear during the breeding season. Saw a chiffchaff yesterday morning and often see them and blackcaps up until December and then they disappear until March! And I know about SAD as I had it one winter, not nice! Millymollymandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12990749863025598526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547505703081839636.post-54948738963211634012015-11-30T14:48:23.399+01:002015-11-30T14:48:23.399+01:00Hi Mandy, November starts to look up here if you g...Hi Mandy, November starts to look up here if you go to the right places that is. Shoreline birds and winter geese. Its October that is about the worse month as nothing much is happening, summer visitors gone winter visitors not arrived. This all has a bearing on the lack of posts as I can walk miles and see b..... all. somedays. Im also trying to restrict my posts to quality rather than quantity. Not doing to well so far. There is also the Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) that I'm sure a lot of us nature lovers suffer from.<br />Beautiful images of your garden as always.Roy Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07054701497328213666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547505703081839636.post-28127335723192971512015-11-29T09:59:49.336+01:002015-11-29T09:59:49.336+01:00Hi Deb and thanks. Sounds good having a clematis f...Hi Deb and thanks. Sounds good having a clematis flowering at this time of year! I only have the summer ones. Hopefully the blogger issues will eventually be sorted - guess I could go on their site and find out, but just haven't got round to it! xxMillymollymandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12990749863025598526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547505703081839636.post-45273565434577554412015-11-29T09:51:03.713+01:002015-11-29T09:51:03.713+01:00Hi Philippa - great to hear about your garden. I h...Hi Philippa - great to hear about your garden. I haven't seen any spring bulbs yet but my garden is generally overgrown this year so any bulbs are probably hidden! The pond is now about 2 foot from the top so looking a lot better now. Thank you. xx<br /><br />Millymollymandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12990749863025598526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547505703081839636.post-21170231599244831712015-11-29T09:48:04.312+01:002015-11-29T09:48:04.312+01:00Thanks Sandra. I had no idea hens would eat nastur...Thanks Sandra. I had no idea hens would eat nasturtiums! They always swamp the compost bins here and sometimes I do have to rip bits off, next time l will give them to the chooks instead. Yes I've got a primrose out too! xxMillymollymandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12990749863025598526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547505703081839636.post-89427280230242859742015-11-29T09:43:34.939+01:002015-11-29T09:43:34.939+01:00Hi RR and thanks. I hope your OH doesn't tidy ...Hi RR and thanks. I hope your OH doesn't tidy up too much - maybe you can gently point him towards plants that are of less interest to wildlife and leave others. I have certain plants which look good all through winter too like Perovskia (silver stems) and some of the Sedums. Then there are those which have seeds which the birds will eat. Anyway as I said, usually it's a good time to just chill and have a break from much gardening! <br /><br />It's interesting that you too lost followers, that can't possibly be a coincidence. Ah well! I think re the plant, if I can remember how, you can do a Google image search for images that look the same or similar, so I'll see if I can find out what the plant is that way.<br /><br />And agree, it's hard sometimes to find things to blog about in winter, and hard to find the time in summer cos there is too much to blog about! :-)Millymollymandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12990749863025598526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547505703081839636.post-42008978264705413432015-11-29T09:33:46.157+01:002015-11-29T09:33:46.157+01:00Though how anyone does long range forecasts is bey...Though how anyone does long range forecasts is beyond me - and the ones they give for the UK are always wrong!!Millymollymandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12990749863025598526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547505703081839636.post-5308251750669382652015-11-28T17:06:35.418+01:002015-11-28T17:06:35.418+01:00Lovely to see your gsrden's still colourful. ...Lovely to see your gsrden's still colourful. Our clematis still has some flowers, but that's about it in our garden. <br />My blogger's always seems to be playing up because of our internet so I can't tell the difference. ;-)Debhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726289204742233844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547505703081839636.post-50801772545279794192015-11-28T15:48:21.941+01:002015-11-28T15:48:21.941+01:00Gosh, so much colour still in your garden, agree a...Gosh, so much colour still in your garden, agree about hydrangeas looking good all the time even throughout the winter.<br />Our nasturtiums are still going strong and we have spring bulbs shooting up here in Devon, anemones, crocuses and tulips!<br />Plenty of rain here too, I could send you some to help fill your lake!<br /><br />Philippa x<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547505703081839636.post-27361717834447366652015-11-28T11:28:24.539+01:002015-11-28T11:28:24.539+01:00Your lake is lovely - very envious! Finally pulle...Your lake is lovely - very envious! Finally pulled up all my nasturtiums and fed them to the hens, they had grown right along the fly screen at the entrance to the house and I kept tripping in them. I have my first primrose flower out on the plants in the driveway - such mild weather for this month. xxSandra Chubbhttp://rainbowcottagesinfrance.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547505703081839636.post-70254457548214512322015-11-27T18:05:12.269+01:002015-11-27T18:05:12.269+01:00No snow here, though some have had a smattering. A...No snow here, though some have had a smattering. A few light frosts but they are giving another mild (for Bulgaria) winterDebrazzawomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00847694903642115853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547505703081839636.post-6490307232067842922015-11-27T17:07:19.161+01:002015-11-27T17:07:19.161+01:00Lovely to see so much colour (and hovers and butte...Lovely to see so much colour (and hovers and butter flies) in your garden still. Cosmos and nasturtium flowers are still hanging on here just...! I love the first photo of the reflections in the lake.<br /><br />The seedheads look lovely - we tend to leave ours until the Spring for insects to hibernate in and birds to forage although OH mentioned recently now he is at home and has more time he may "tidy" it up - I am not at all happy and hope he forgets!!<br /><br />Sorry I can't help about the id of the flower - hope someone else can. Not noticed any problems on my main blog although I did lose 2 Followers on my other blog recently - both at the same time. Although I was never sure how they had managed to follow it as I didn't add a follower option due to the problems of following people back! Have to say though that I use a very basic blogger set up!<br /><br />Look forward to seeing more of your photos soon.<br /><br />November is probably one of my least favourite months too - just haven't had much chance recently to go out and find anything to blog about!Ragged Robinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14090463834740346114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547505703081839636.post-52592347113676860032015-11-27T16:17:34.620+01:002015-11-27T16:17:34.620+01:00Thanks Dwoman - do you have snow now (yes I know I...Thanks Dwoman - do you have snow now (yes I know I have a post of yours to read yet....). It's just that a fb friend with a holiday home there somewhere has snow. It was the first year that the finished brassicas stayed put for months before K got round to digging them out. I think they'll be composted eventually but I was surprised they survived the cabbage whites with no intervention from me.<br /><br />I haven't had any messages from Blogger - guess I could look up on their website but it's not mega important.Millymollymandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12990749863025598526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547505703081839636.post-5118416757954322092015-11-27T16:09:46.297+01:002015-11-27T16:09:46.297+01:00One of the reasons for buying this place! :-)One of the reasons for buying this place! :-)Millymollymandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12990749863025598526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547505703081839636.post-36428241663400373012015-11-27T16:08:52.049+01:002015-11-27T16:08:52.049+01:00Thanks Ian. I really hope I can shake off my depre...Thanks Ian. I really hope I can shake off my depression soon as it's alien to me and very hard to cope with. Sure I've got my physical limitations too but there is so much I want to do outside tidying up a bit, but it'll have to wait (although I have managed to snip off all the flower stalks from two of my five giant lavenders). <br /><br />I'm looking forward to eating some kale but I'd rather wait until we have a proper below zero frost just to be sure of killing off any of my little buggy friends! :-) It's nice to have a change from courgettes though, isn't it? Oh and I've been really pleased that I have very little root fly damage on my carrots, some have none at all!Millymollymandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12990749863025598526noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547505703081839636.post-5824035086669915912015-11-27T12:27:45.655+01:002015-11-27T12:27:45.655+01:00PS, I love your lake, that makes me really jealous...PS, I love your lake, that makes me really jealousDebrazzawomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00847694903642115853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547505703081839636.post-48307994601034141502015-11-27T12:26:44.816+01:002015-11-27T12:26:44.816+01:00Aww I thought our flowers were doing well till I s...Aww I thought our flowers were doing well till I saw your's, they're lovely. Though you don't get the cold we do (she consoles herself) Never had a self sown brassica, Dave would yank it out if we did....he's desperate to get my untidy sprouts tidied!<br /><br />Blogger are making changes but as I don't understand computer language I have no idea what the message they sent means. That might have upset your settingsDebrazzawomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00847694903642115853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4547505703081839636.post-46085565304398007582015-11-27T11:24:02.173+01:002015-11-27T11:24:02.173+01:00Hi Mandy, know what you mean about this time of ye...Hi Mandy, know what you mean about this time of year, am in England now and looking forward to January, the longer days and being able to get back out to Brittany :-) Nice shots and your garden's looking good.Ianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09433611954668756550noreply@blogger.com