Kari's Garden

A very moody scene today.

There's a Blaise Castle in Bristol. Wiki tells me the origin was a chapel to St Blaise sometime before the Norman conquest now a big house, village and sham castle.

Brilliant new and re-published nature books (mainly UK) - lovely small independent publisher - enjoy!

A black cat with a white face is curled up under the sun with a kitten. The short poem by Taneda Santoka apparently reads, "The cats enjoying sun bathing together are a mother cat and her kitten."

'Sun Bathing' - Kozaki Kan.
#Caturday #JapaneseArt

A lovely piece of community spirit and identity in these embroideries - I feel sad too, 'All that land is now houses'. The Victorians woke up to the fact that too much land was going under housing - time we woke up again too.

Very large frilly scarlet and purple fuchsia flower

Flowering late as usual, a hugely big fuchsia floof - I think it is 'Phénoménal' bred by Victor Lemoine in the 19thCentury,
(labels got muddled so could be Baron de Ketteler which to my untrained eye looks similar)

Camellia 'Snow Flurry' white doubled flowers

Hardy autumn flowering camellia bred by William Ackerman in the US, 'Snow Flurry', said to be scented but I can't detect much if any scent - perhaps it needs more warmth than here in the UK.

It's been a good year for persicaria - 'Amethyst' particularly long flowering

Purse made of a walnut shell covered with embroidered silk, England, 1600-1650. (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

Whistler's Mother, watching Grandpa Simpson on the telly, with my dad's cat on his knee: a painting by my dad.

Whistler's Mother, watching Grandpa Simpson on the telly, with my dad's cat on his knee: a painting by my dad. www.tom-cox.com/the-cat-who-...

Bernadette Banner did an interesting take on this too

A cool way to illustrate #Viking ships? Paint them on a pane of glass and set it up by the sea.

Its not new been rumbling on - my mother is Norwegian and still a Norwegian national, around lock-down/just post she had to go to Bath and was interviewed re citizenship under the Tories (very stressful), she's in her 80s and has lived here since around 1958.

Cartoon of many small birds resting on the branches of a tree Caption reads "...then swerve up sharply to the right, veer left a bit, swooping low..."

In case you’ve ever wondered how they do it…

www.worldofmoose.com/products/mum...

My persicaria have been very good this year despite the heat

It is our hope too on walks in Wiltshire - if only

Yellow flowers of an abutilon

Morning Glory a striped white and blue cultivar

A small flowered fuchsia, red and white outer petals and purple skirts

Still enjoying the exotica outside as we make our way coolly and rainily further into autumn, this lovely abutilon will be moved into an unheated greenhouse in a few weeks. Ipomoea 'Flying Saucers' is at peak flowering. Fuchsia 'Lady Bacon' putting on a good show after the heat, is hardy here.

Today I headed to St. Katherine’s Dock to see the replica Viking longboat that’s sailed over for the Greenwich Maritime Festival

indeed they did

Beautiful.

An interesting observation - distribution of elder trees in the UK

An interesting observation - I don't think we have a lot of elder in our corner of Wiltshire (idle observation not recorded fact). Hedging / age of is probably one clue as you suggest. I will need to be more observant next year when they flower - especially whether they relate to farm yards/houses.

We sure do - we have had 10 minutes or less in my bit of Wiltshire - I feel cheated!

Eucalyptus tree with Carex Everglow at the base.

If only Miscanthus liked my garden - a new favourite, tall, white and pinky toned 'Memory'

Image showing a grass path, planted alongside with red persicaria in the foreground, Panicum, Arundo donax in the background and other perennials and trees.

🌱 Worra a lot of grasses - as you might expect at Knoll Gardens near Bournemouth. First visit. Loved it.

Thank you for the ident. I saw similar on our alder last week.

A Viking longship will row up the River Thames next week A 1,000-year replica boat is heading into central London.

In case you’re in the area… www.timeout.com/london/news/...

Naturalistic soft planting yellow patrinia, agapanthus, angelica and grasses

🌱A wet Keith Wiley's Wildside garden yesterday in Devon. Dartmoor and surrounds was under a big black cloud. Picnic in the car. All sunny at home.

Public Image - John Lydon starts Hello ...

I hate maize as it seems to be to feeding only biodigesters hereabouts horrible crop ...

I was told that one of mine was hung for sheep stealing somewhere in westmoreland / yorks.