May - plants do well

I love your toad. We used to have some but no longer, pity. I really can't see your frog on the wall, I will need its orientation explaining. I hope your family can get together soon, stay safe.

I love your photos Eileen, especially the frog. Your daughters are lovely. Hope everybody is safe and well. Thanks for sharing your garden.

Gosh..you have such amazing wildlife, and those girls...so beautiful! Sunset Boulevard is beautiful. I love that burnt orange colour in the garden.

thanks you for your kind comments. I think the girls are pretty but I am so biased. What never ceases to amaze me is that they have such different colouring yet all from the same gene pool. Also very different personalities despite being brought up the same. Definitely Nature over nurture. Elizabeth, my mum and I were very similar when we were 5 yrs old. I will post those some time in the future.

Siris the frog is facing left. its eyeball is almost on a level with the white blob. The darker shape middle to the bottom is its shadow. The flash wasn't working on the camera as the battery was nearly flat.
there is a hedgehog feeding already tonight so I will top their food up before I go to bed.

I'm glad the Aquilegia is flowering now, and your other flowers are lovely.
It's interesting to be able to identify those moths, and find wildlife in your garden.
You have two beautiful daughters and it will be nice for you to see your eldest one soon.

A fascinating blog, SBG, and how nice to meet your daughters. I'm sure lots of us our missing close members of our families so it's good to see things easing.
Like you say, GoY, has passed a lot of time for a new member like me, and I have been happy to catch up with fresh acquaintances, so thank you all for your welcome and comments.
Your plants are interesting but so is the wildlife in the garden. I have only seen a toad once in ours and thought it rather beautiful. The hedgehogs are regular visitors, too, although rather late this year in coming. Since discovering 'our' hawkmoth I take more notice of them now.

Its lovely to see your daughters Eileen - especially Victoria as you have mentioned her so often! No you are not biased - they are lovely. What is Victoria's sister's name? They (and you!) are fortunate to have all that wildlife in the garden. Our toad has disappeared and there are no hedgehogs because there are badgers though no sign of them for quite a while now..No frogs either sad to say. My word what valuable frogs you have - resident slug traps!
A lovely blog, thank you!

Ooops name check, she is Elizabeth. I chose their names not for any Royalist reason but at the time I hadn't taught any one I didn't like with that name. OH fancied Emily but I had a mare of a girl so that wasn't going to happen. Since they were born I have had both names for challenging pupils!

I still have plenty of slugs!

Thanks for sharing your lovely blog, Eileen. Your daughters are both looking lovely, it’s sad at the moment isn’t it for everyone with this virus keeping family and friends apart.
The aquilegia is definitely a pretty one, I’ve seen Karen’s and Hywel’s pics of this one too.
Fantastic pics of the moths, hedgehog, the toad and frogs. You definitely have plenty of slug and snail deterrents as said before.
Hope you’re feeling better? Keep safe and well.

Lovely photos and blog. The weather has been warm and sunny here these last few days so I am behind with being on here. Rain and cooler weather due over the next few days so it will be nice to have time to catch up with everyone.

Lovely blog and photo's, it must be such a joy to share the same interests with your daughters, your youngest one is very intent on what she is doing in that photo, I'm petrified of moths so don't know one from the others, I know some of them are really pretty but they do insist on divebombing my head, lol...
There used to be a huge toad living in my logpile, haven't seen him this year so hoping he's just moved because we now have my sister's Pepper, sadly I no longer see my hedgehogs in my garden either, that is not all down to Pepper, my new neighbours have two yorkies so I think the hogs are going in the opposite direction now...
We're gradually getting through this crisis, thank goodness, lets hope you'll soon be able to take another shot of your girls together, that one you took at xmas is lovely....

Lovely blog, thanks for sharing.

Thank you for the frog explanation, I believe you've a frog with very long front legs, haha.

Lovely blog, Eileen, & so much wildlife in your garden!

We have never seen any amphibians on or near the balcony in the close to 20 years we've lived here. But we have seen, or at least I've seen, hedgehogs outside the balcony. They would find it difficult to get in anyway as I put chicken wire over the balcony railings very shortly after we moved in to stop our 5 little dogs from getting out of the balcony & onto the busy road outside. Anyway there are no slugs on the balcony although we do get a few snails (they love Amaryllis leaves!) as I see their slime trails all over the balcony, including the ceiling! So if they so desired, they could reach even the hanging baskets!

A few days ago I was out working on the balcony when a Magpie alighted on the railings around the block of flats where we live. It stayed there for several minutes before flying off. We were no more that a couple of meters apart! (It was obviously respecting the social distancing laws in place!).

Just 2 days ago a Robin landed on the railings outside as well but no more than a meter from where I happened to be standing! :)

They always seem to come along when I don't have my phone with me so I might be able to take a picture of them. :(