{"id":2768,"date":"2012-08-19T20:37:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T20:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2768"},"modified":"2012-08-25T10:44:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T10:44:06","slug":"daily-garden-photos-we-19th-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2768","title":{"rendered":"Daily garden photos: w\/e 19th August"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our dessert plums are ready for picking:\"Plums<\/a>This was Friday’s photo which I took about an hour before we picked some of the plums from this tree – we picked nearly a bucketful – about 15lb – in about 10 minutes. Most of these are now in our freezer.<\/p>\n

It was difficult to find a suitable bunch of these plums to photograph: most were just ones or twos, others had damaged or rotten ones in the group (you may just see a rotten one behind a leaf near the top). I finally settled on this group of four as they were nicely spaced out although I would have preferred more leaves to the right.<\/p>\n

On Monday morning, on my way to let the turkeys out, I spotted this drop of dew on the tip of a leaf on a sycamore tree:<\/p>\n

\"Dew<\/a>What I like about this image is the pattern of the leaf structure within the drop of water which appears to have slightly magnified the detail. I have cropped the original image by about 50% so as to see better the dew drop. In the full image you can just make out the outline of the trunk of the tree and lower branches.<\/p>\n

Tuesday, I took this Physostegia (Obedient Plant) for my wife. She wants a collection of photos of plants that she grows in flower – this is one of several I took that day.<\/p>\n

\"Physostegia<\/a>For Wednesday I wanted to show dew on the grass. This was difficult to take without getting wet by lying on the grass. I managed by crouching down but it was difficult seeing the screen. My camera, although it is a compact camera, has a manual focus option. I set this for the closest focus point, and moved the camera back and forth until I was reasonably certain that I had the drops in focus – even then I wasn’t sure though until I loaded the image onto the computer. I was pleased with this result which is a crop of about 50% of the original image:<\/p>\n

\"Dew<\/a>On Thursday morning I needed to pick the runner beans so I took my camera with me. I wanted to get a view of a group of beans with the foliage fully occupying the background. The beans tend to grow along a stalk which means that to get them all in focus I had to be at right angles to the stalk. In most cases this resulted in a background other than the bean foliage. I had to search through most of the bean plants to get this image:<\/p>\n

\"Runner<\/a>Larger versions and the full set of these photos can be seen in the Garden Gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our dessert plums are ready for picking:This was Friday’s photo which I took about an hour before we picked some of the plums from this tree – we picked nearly a bucketful – about 15lb – in about 10 minutes. Most of these are now in our freezer. It was difficult to find a suitable … Continue reading “Daily garden photos: w\/e 19th August”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2768"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2802,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions\/2802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}