I have been picking blackberries off this hedge for 30 years. I’ve blogged about it before (Season mists and …blackberries, 6 Sep 2010, Blackberry makes $1bn loss, 24 September 2013). This year the blackberries are numerous but very few of them are ripe, and even they are not…
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It’s unpredictably good or bad
My late-flowering buddleia is a delight – in a good year. It’s too early to tell if this year is a good year. It really comes into its own in an indian summer when there are few other flowering plants around and it acts like a butterfly magnet. Yesterday afternoon there was this Painted Lady…
Not Woodstock but Blogstock
I arrived with low hopes at a soggy field in what used to be Middlesex on Saturday morning. So this was Blogstock was it? The security man on the gate told me that I was a VIP, which didn’t cheer me up that much and I headed off to a marquee from whose roof water…
Oscar Dewhurst – Oystercatcher
Oscar writes: I had been sitting in the East Hide at Minsmere for most of the morning with not much to photograph other than a couple of flyby Avocets. This Oystercatcher circled around the scrape a couple of times calling, and I was glad to see I’d got one image with its beak open. Nikon…
Meet the tuluver
Click here – it’s quite good fun.