Today in the garden and park.

I enjoyed seeing how your garden is coming along, especially that sempervivum, looks a really good colour!
Those gardens you went to look a great place to visit, love the heathers and conifers, thanks for the blog:)

your garden is comming on nicely SL, and a lovely day out to with great pics all the way.
good close ups of the skater and tads, love nature, thank god my freezer is self defrosting lol :o))

Excellent, Surrey.
I take it the muscari is scented?
And the colour of that semp? The red & yellow one? Glorious!

Yes, me too. That muscari is really nice. Also love the last photo. As for the heathers and the freezer defrosting.......nah.....;) But the skunk cabbage...now you're talking, and what a gorgeous sempervivum! And those glowing red trees! Wow! thanks Slad. it's been a few years since we were last in Windsor....sigh.

Looks like a good day out and a picnic makes it perfect. I love the last picture - all that blue sky is just so joyous.

Great Windsor park.
Happy days. Lol.

thanks very much everyone i'm glad you all enjoyed it, as for the freezer yes i think i'll talk the in laws into a self defroster.. :-) the muscari has a scent yes but not as strong as i hopped still any scent is a bonus i got it for the colour really :-)

lol Mouldy :-))

thanks again everyone :-)

lovely mate - like you I put white dcentra with the red bang next to each other . no water skaters here that I know anyway, we have a spider than runs across - brilliant pics mate on a great day

Red bang.
Is that like cillet bang? Lol.

lol maybe

bang and the red is gone :-))

cheers Paul, not seen a spider do that before mate must be fun to see that :-)

yes mate little ones that run and sit on water , just has little dimples in water at end of its legs :D

fishing spider it's called SL

that's so cool mate, just had to google it, it's an interesting one that. :-)

Lol, Surrey!
Seen that, too, along with waterboatmen.
Come to think of it, isn't there a spider that lives under the surface.
Yes, I remember, it breathes in the air trapped in the bubbles around it's body.
Weird or what?

I've seen that one Mouldy, years ago now it traps air around itself.

I saw it in a wildlife prog about 30 odd years ago, Surrey.
Big Dave Attenborrough doing ponds.
The camera was underwater photographing dragonfly larvae attatched to reed stems & caught the spider rising, then submergimg again, after it had replenished the bubbles.
Everything was covered, slugs, , fleas, you name it.
If I remember correctly a healthy pond contains around 22 different life-forms.
Incredible, when you stop to consider how a deep 'puddle' can support that many creatures!

yes that's very true mate, that's the beauty of nature :-)

So how come we got lumbered with slugs? Lol.

Lol

Love that Semper, and never thought about the Dicentras crossing !! (do you know they have changed the name it is not Dicentra any more, but do you think I can remember what it is? no, because it is totally forgettable , so it will always be Dicentra to me) great pics.

Thanks, The new name is Lamprocapnos spectabilis 'Alba' why oh why they changed it to that is beyond me DD, like you it'll always be dicentra :-)

Alba white, without the alba for red..

Thats a lousy name, I shall never ever get my mind around that one lol

They're breaking my bleeding heart! LOL.

I know DD lol.

Lol Mouldy :-))

Your Aquilegias are looking really healthy, S'lad ... one of my favourite flowers of all ... I have just searched around for my Dicentra but can't see a sign of it ... I hope it hasn't succumbed to the wet Winter.

Lovely Pics S'lad in the garden and the park, a lovely blue sky makes all the difference whether we are in the garden or having a day out........

Thanks Shirley, fingers crossed I hope yours make it.

Thanks Lincslass yes the blue sky makes a difference everyone's happy and smiling.