Our Broad Bean crop is looking promising
Our allotment neighbour has a lovely Lavender border., loved by the bees.
This is a self sown Poppy and it is glorious.
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Another Guest Blogger
LiveWire no 4 is with us now and is a keen photographer. Here follow her photos of our garden in gallery 1.
Pretty petunias
3D printed owl
Golden rose
Fuchsia called Lady in Black
Huge raggedy white dahlia
In gallery 2, are the photos she took at the allotment all with her own labels.
Red and yellow dahlias
Courgette grown to be a marrow
Looks like a giant thistle
Dark red dahlias
Bee on red dahlia
Pretty pink dahlia
Bee on yellow dahlia
Lots of pink Japanese Anemones
Small white dahlias
A rather tired bee searching for food
Allotment Colour
Most people grow veggies on their plots and many have a few flowers as well which makes for lovely splashes of colour all over the place as well as being great for pollinators. 
Other WordPress bloggers will know how sometimes it’s fun to look at your stats. At this time of year, it gives me enormous pleasure to see how the views on my recipe for Runner Bean Soup hit the heights! It delights me too that it comes up first or second when I google the recipe. Go on, try it!
Spring Equinox
Another lovely day to celebrate the Spring Equinox. There were bees all over the garden this morning, loving the Muscari especially and the Viburnam was alive with busy buzzing.
Community Roots
It was so lovely to be back at Community Roots today (A pause on reporting our adventures on our road trip.) Working with the volunteers, laughing and catching up as we pricked out baby lettuces and set them on their way, was simply a joy! See the 100’s we potted on in the gallery below.
This one landed on my sleeve while I was working and I managed to catch it on camera. I love the furriness and the delicate wings
Babies potted on
Even more baby lettues
Poly tunnel prpped for planting
Squash harvest
Butternut squash still on the vine
Post Box Topper, A Rubbing and Tomatoes 26/7/23
Sadly, our family visit was a flying one but at least the days they were here we had sunshine and lots of laughs and fun. Today it has rained almost non-stop.
Just along the road is a delightful new post box topper of bees and a beehive.
We have less wall space than we had in our last house and have some art works in leaning piles. This lovely rubbing was given to us 50+ years ago by a college friend when he came back from Thailand. It is now on its way to a new wall.
We picked a handful of tomatoes yesterday and ate them in BLTs for lunch before the family left.
Sweet Peas, Sweet Corn and Bees
I have spent much of the afternoon in the shade of the arbour, reading. When I looked up, this was my view, Sweet Peas and Sweet Corn in the raised beds against a backdrop of a cerulean sky The tassels on the corn are turning brown so we should be able to harvest them quite soon.
When it was a little cooler, we went down to the allotment to water the cucumbers, courgettes and squash. While the lovely Mr S was doing that I was taking photos of bees on a neighbour’s very dark bronze sunflowers.
Irises, Poppy and A Bee
We are loving our white irises.
When the petals have all fallen off the poppy, this remarkable little beauty is left.
The following photo and info came to me today.
“There is a bee appearing at the moment – it’s bright iridescent blue – details below! Please please DON’T KILL HER !!!
It is indeed a bee that is present in the gardens at the moment. It is called the Xylocope bee. It is the largest bee in Europe (2.5 to 3 cm). It does not sting (if we do not chase it of course). The Xylocope is a so-called “solitary” bee. But it can live in colonies, that is to say side by side. Black with bluish wings … she is very beautiful but can be scary, her flight is fast and very noisy, but she is not aggressive and rarely stings. It is to be protected because it is rare and very useful …. some people confuse it with the Asian hornet !!!
Thank you for circulating …. 
Source: Bruno Deleuze”
Foxgloves, Bee and Hedgerow
Our hedgerows have changed colour from blue to mostly pink and yellow with some white. The Foxgloves are gorgeous and the bees love them. We heard a cuckoo on our walk around this morning. As I write I can hear two owls calling to each other. .
Looking over the hills from the Great Flat Lode across to the sea where a navy frigate is coasting up and down. It is here because of the G7 taking place in St Ives this coming weekend. There’s a missile launcher at Godrevy!
Sunset, Bee and Fish’n’chips
Last night’s sunset was spectacular and the colour was caught in the windows across the road from us. My Dear SIL, with whom I share a love of special words (like petrichor and serendipity) sent me a beautiful new word a few weeks ago and today I can use it to describe that lovely colour caught in the windows – enrosadira. It is used in the Dolomites where at sunrise and sunset, the rocky cliffs take on hues that vary from light yellow to bright red, to different shades of pink and violet, until the mountains disappear in the dark of night. Enrosadira is a ladin term literally meaning “turning pink” (Ladin is the ancient language of the inhabitants of the Dolomites). We get the same beautiful effect here in Cornwall!
What beautiful colouring on this bee and how glorious he looks as he searches for nectar in the Eryngium flower.
As the New Year started, work began on our local Fish’n’chip shop, just around the corner. Everything stopped during lockdown, building continued recently and today they opened so that was tea sorted! As an English teacher, the sign pleased me with its apostrophe, a little fish, in the right place!
