I know I haven’t posted for a few days, but I have been soooo busy with all my orders from my Etsy shop and now today I took a breather and went outside into the garden with my children and just photographed everything that has been happening over the last few weeks…..
This is a most beautiful plant, it is called a Buddleia Davidii, (a butterfly plant), it attracts the most beautiful butterflies and has a divine scent.
Our Roses are also blossoming forth…
Isn’t nature amazing, just look at all these littls workers busy collecting all they can from this pumpkin flower!
Our grape vine is heavily laden with grapes, almost time for wine making again…. fun!
We discovered this pumpkin completely by accident, we recycle most of our veggie scraps and a few pumpkin seeds must have found their way into our compost heep. Anyway, when we dug our new vegetable beds and filled them with compost, this pumpkin vine emerged out of nowhere and under all the massive leaves, we found this beautiful pumpkin, it measures, 16 inches across and it is still growing… What a lovely surprise!!
This is our resident bat, he lives in our patio umbrella and he has been with us for a few years, every evening at dusk, he flies out with his other bat friends, he is precious….
Hope you are all having a wonderful week…..
Oh those clusters of grapes are divine! That pumpkin is a beauty too!
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What a gorgeous bat! What kind is he?
Hi lulu,
I love your pumpkin, what a lovely surprise. 🙂 And the bat is so sweet, we have a resident owl and last week there were two in my upstairs area.
xx
Carle
wow what great pics…..that bat is something else!
Thanks everyone for all your comments, I have been told that the bat is an insect bat. And that pumpkin just gets bigger and bigger and so do the grapes, Yikes, I love it….
What a cute little bat! I recently read that one of my favorite flowers, the passionflower vine, needs bats for pollination. I have never seen a bat in the urban area that we live though. Growing up, we had hundreds in our old barn. Lovely blog! It is neat to see what is going on where you are, so far and yet so near in spirit! Blessings on your New Year!