{"id":2780,"date":"2012-08-24T20:05:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T20:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2780"},"modified":"2012-08-25T10:43:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T10:43:48","slug":"daily-garden-photos-we-24th-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2780","title":{"rendered":"Daily garden photos: w\/e 24th August"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday I almost stepped on this dragonfly on the lawn:<\/p>\n

\"dragonfly\"<\/a>I was returning to the house after letting out the turkeys early in the morning when the sun was still low, and the grass was wet with dew, when I almost stepped on this dragonfly. It must have rested the night an the lawn and was warming up in the sun.<\/p>\n

Not knowing how long I had before it flew off, I grabbed my compact camera to get this record shot. I then spent the next 20 minutes photographing this insect with my DSLR before it flew off. I shall be giving more details and photographs in the next post.<\/p>\n

My wife has planted several large clumps of Rudbeckia in the garden:<\/p>\n

\"rudbeckia\"<\/a>On Monday I took this image of a yellow variety that grows quite tall – this stands over 6ft high in our garden. We have several large stands of this flower.<\/p>\n

In the polytunnel we grow tomatoes (as well as other crops):<\/p>\n

\"tomatos<\/a>We are growing about 8 different varieties this year – this shows Gardener’s Delight, a small cherry type tomato.<\/p>\n

Stinging nettles are the bane of my life in the garden:<\/p>\n

\"stinging<\/a>They seem to grow faster than I can remove them. They do produce tiny flowers and seem attractive to a variety of insects (not all bad). Here I show the top of a tall nettle in the sun, along with its flowers.<\/p>\n

Fennel is a vegetable that we are growing for the first time this year:<\/p>\n

\"Fennel\"<\/a>From a low angle like this, it could almost pass as a view in a forest… It is popular with one of our neighbours who has had all that we can spare so far!<\/p>\n

Larger versions, along with previous photos in this series, can be viewed in the gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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On Thursday I almost stepped on this dragonfly on the lawn: I was returning to the house after letting out the turkeys early in the morning when the sun was still low, and the grass was wet with dew, when I almost stepped on this dragonfly. It must have rested the night an the lawn … Continue reading “Daily garden photos: w\/e 24th 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-2780","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\/2780","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=2780"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2800,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions\/2800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}