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10/05/2017

Claire & Joe created a forest garden from scratch with guidance from Mary's book The Garden Awakening - Designs to Nurture Ourselves and Our Land. You can go back and read about its origins here & then keep up with current happenings at their Instagram @IrishForestGarden.

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🐝✨💚 some of the pussy willow had come into blossom…the sun was shining…and there were all manner of chaps out and about! first solitary bees i saw today and they went straight to the pollen to give themselves a boost💚🐝👍
🦋💚👍lots of firsts today….first tortoise shell butterfly that came out of hibernation today in the sun. of course they went straight to the dandelion as there isn’t a lot of other decent food sources out yet. if you want the butterflies and the bees to have an easy and sustaining meal on emergence - leave the weeds! leave the willows! trees are so important in these early parts of the spring in terms of food sources for the emerging insects🦋💚👍🌼
💚🐞and the gorse of course…i counted 8 ladybirds sat very still but on the sunny side of the street in the gorse. the smell is kicking in too with the coconuty smell coming off it. lovely!
🕷even saw a little spider sunning itself on a flat stone
💫🌳catkins with sparrows shouting in the background
❤️🐦🌱gorgeous little red breasted friend sat in the honey berry bush on the spy for what im doing. the honey berry is an early flowering shrub too. bees love them. not long now💚
🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸and look at the tadpoles! they are most defiantly alive at this point. some popped out of their egg sacks and started wriggling around en masse. very cool. love a bit of a tadpole watch in the sun
🌱last of the sprouts
🌱first of the beetroots
🌳and thank you for the little oak acorns @colmmacconiomaire planted a few up in the sun today too 💚

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💚🐦🌱🌕✨💚🐦🌱 💚🐦 sparrows

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💚🐦 sparrows beware - lovely little sparrow hawk popped in yesterday. i think this might be a male as he was smaller than the bird i usually see. look at those eyes on that robot like head looking all around for where they are hiding!
🐦💚heres one hiding in the goji berry bush in the fg after having a little bath
🐸tadpole watch
🌱💗got out to plant some of the foxgloves around the wishing circle while the sun shone
🌱joe planted out some broad beans today too into the market garden area. they are a little bit lonely right now, but they’ll have mates soon..
🌳catkins on the alders blowing in the wind with ominous grey cloud blowing 🌱over in the background
also started a seed germination test on some of the seed harvested last year. teasels, foxglove, cockles, plantains, yarrow and carroty things. if they go ill get some ready for sale if anyones interested
🐦💫 birds going to bed last night as the sun went down
🌕and the lovely moon as the birds all went to sleep
💚🦅and one more of mr sparrow hawk cause hes so gorgeous

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❤️🐦 Back to the rain and the grey today…but this little fellow always brightens the day. Watching intently as I worked outside…always on the look out for an easy worm or 3🪱🪱🪱
❤️🐦Mr chaffinch sat in the elderflower tree in the fg. Staking his pitch and showing off his lovely colours to the ladies
💚🌱Most of the hedging hawthorns are not this advanced, but theres always one that is ahead of the game
🐦🖤Rook having a gander and a shake in the rain
🐦💚Coal tit staying still for at least 5 seconds!
🐦🌳Yesterday we had a little flock of these mistle thrush in the garden up the field. Look at that blue sky!
🐌💚And again yesterday in the sun, found a little snail on the sorrel
🌳Alder catkins
🐦🌳Collared dove in the oak tree waiting for its mate
🌱And a tiny little Worcester berry pair of leaves popping their heads out

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🌱💚🌞 i know the rain is going to come back tomorrow, but today - well - it really felt like spring! sun was out. birds were all shouting to each other and i got the macro out to have a close up nose at some of the buds that i could see ready to burst forth..
💚🌱pussy willow looking like little rabbit scuts🐇
🌱💗japanese quince in the permaculture hedge in the fg. i can just see their little stamens starting to poke out of the unfurling bud
💜🌱dog violet. always a winner
💚🌱one of those little 2cm wide round balls of moss on the big stones. i think its moss anyways…i only noticed three teeny tiny beetles at the bottom left of the moss, at about 8pm if you zoom in
💛🌱a gorse flower showing off its yellow bonnet
💚🐸and look at these mad things…frogspawn. the ones on the right of the picture were laid much more recently than the ones on the left which if you zoom in you can see the little tadpoley shapes formed already! mad old stuff!
💛🌱a new shrub for the fg. mahonia or oregan grape. a mass of yellow flowers will come first, then a string of berries. these are tiny at the moment but they look like a bunch of little brussels sprouts to me
💛🌼dog wood flowers with little flies having a feed. nice to see some life in the garden that isn’t purely birds!
🧡❤️💛🌞beautiful sunset
🐦💫 💤 and one of the bird boxes is having a regular night time visitor, especially in the windy wet weather that we’ve been having. a great tit is firmly staking its claim and sleeping in here most nights 💤😊

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