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Convolvulus tricolour also called Dwarf Morning Glory: the white ensign and the blue ensign flowers.

This year, I created an ecosystem on my terrace; I already have one in our meadow, but it's wild. I decided to put more pots on the terrace also because of the strong winds we have in our region, the heat this summer, and the heavy rains; that way, I can hide the pots in case of bad weather.

My flowers with 3 different hoverflies (Syrphidae).

The Marmelade hoverfly female (Episyrphus balteatus). Second picture: Crescent hoverfly female (Eupeodes luniger) and on the blue ensign flower: Migrant hoverfly (Eupeodes corollae).

Borago Officinalis (Borage)!

Hello!

The first picture, you can see my borage flower with a pink colour. Borage flowers open at first, as soft pink buds, then a few hours later, shift to a vibrant, iconic blue as they mature.

The second picture, the flower opened the day before the "pink" one, and lasted only one day, you can see what's left of the flower on the left, next to the open "pink" flower, the petals are gone.

The 3rd and 4th pictures, it's the "pink" flower that turned blue, a few hours later it opened.

These flowers only live for 2 to 3 days. A borage flower only lasts about a day and maximum 3 days, but a single plant produces hundreds of blooms, providing a continuous supply for weeks. The buds below the pink flower aren't open yet.

The plant is resistant to several types of garden pests. It is a perfect companion because it attracts beneficial insects like bees.

Thank you very much for your comments: 😊 💐

Just popping in to say hi! I haven't been very active on Tumblr lately, I've been very busy, but I hope you're all doing well and having a lovely summer. Western Europe has been experiencing a severe heatwave since June. In the Western part of Europe, this year Summer started earlier, the continent is facing its third heatwave in six weeks and the European continent is warming faster than others.

Here with the Alps/mountains it helps off and on, with fresh gusts and I can go up in the mountain to refresh but others in cities and no mountains around, it's bad. At least here when we have the heatwave after that we get storms/rain. I can't complain as I lived in Japan and Summers there are can be worse, in Kyoto we reached 40° (degrees celsius), especially in 1994, a city known in Summer to have a high humidity and when I went out from my house, it was like to be in a sauna, but there it's normal, Summers in Kyoto are notoriously hot, muggy, and stifling. Because the city sits in a geographical basin, heat and humidity get trapped often pushing temperatures upwards of 32°C to 35°C and like I said the feeling to be inside a sauna. 🫣

It should get better in a few days, temperatures will start to drop, am glad because I had to protect some of my flowers, my cosmos flowers are struggling but the sunflowers have no problem. 😊

I will check your pictures later on, for now I just wanted to say hello and to wish you a wonderful day and evening. Below a picture of Mina last night, sleeping on my glass display cabinet.

Ginger is 11 years old today. 🥳

Osteospermum flowers!

Beautiful flowers from South Africa, also called African daisies.

It's the first time I planted those flowers, good for the pollinators.

Have a nice weekend! 🌻

Thank you: 🤗 💐

Hello!

The first and the second picture, you can see the wisteria leaves and also Ginger & Mina. 😊

After 3 years, my wisteria started to bloom. If you never had a wisteria and would like one in your garden or on your terrace/balcony for more privacy. The better way or for a quicker way, it's like we did, planting the tree then it will take 3 to 5 years to get flowers, the first 2 years, there are only leaves.

Planting a grafted wisteria like I did, as a tree is an excellent way to achieve rapid flowering. Grafting guarantees much faster flowering, usually 3 to 5 years, compared to a seedling which can take 10 to 20 years and also disease resistance compared to seeds.

It's a Chinese wisteria, it smells nice, sweet fragrance, the flowers blooms before the leaves, it gets vigorous and massive.

Hello!

I hope you are doing fine. Thank you for Mina's birthday wishes.

I will this week look at your photos as I haven't checked Tumblr for almost 3 weeks now, my Macbook cable is broken, so for now off and on, I can use my husband's computer but I don't really like it and I don't see where the smileys are. LoL! 

Also busy with the meadow and this year I planted more flowers but in the pots, mostly for the bees, hoverflies, butterflies and so on, like this I can hide the pots when we have strong rain and windstorms. 

And after 3 years, my Chinese wisteria bloomed, so beautiful. I will post pictures. 

I wish you a nice week and evening. 

Mina, she just turned 11. 🌻

Hello! Thank you very much for your support and kind words.

The pains are gone, also the hematoma, now just some bruises, at least my face didn't turn black and the eye was not touched but the swelling is gone, just a tiny bruise now and the leg is almost healed, only bruises now.

Have a nice weekend!

Hello! For today, a picture of Mina.

Hope you are better than me. At least I can write but to walk not very well yet, it still hurts.

I fell down, my cheek hit the fence hard and was very swollen, one of our fences outside in front of the entrance door is not a wood fence but a metal fence. My leg is cut, and my knee is open. The doctor said my cheek and eye will be black for one to two weeks, it will not heal quickly but I was very lucky they said. . My leg is bandaged, but it burns. I'm taking painkillers now. He said I was incredibly lucky; somehow I was protected that my eyes, teeth, and head weren't affected. Now everything with bandages.

Now I have to constantly ice my leg and be careful that the redness doesn't get worse and that I don't faint.

Hallo! I hope you're doing well. I wasn't on Tumblr lately but soon I will check your photos.

Today I had a surprise in my meadow, I discovered a tulip, I never planted. 😊

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My new pictures taken yesterday morning and today, the sparrows came to eat and one of them was flying back and forth when I was doing the garden, it's the one in my last picture, he came a few times to take pampas grass for his nest.  😊

Have a nice weekend!

Hello!

This year, I didn't put up a birdhouse in the garden. Instead I put the food on our terrace: one feeder with seeds in a standard hanging feeder, and the other two with suet balls that I placed in my baking whisks.

The last picture, you can see the male sparrow with a pampas grass in his beak, he was sitting on my wisteria. In the 5th and 6th photos, on the left you can see a pampas grass; birds are collecting it to build their nests.

Ginger lying on the warm tiled stove! 😊

@adventuresofalgy: Thank you, 😊 💐 yes, it's nice and warm with the tiled stove, and it heats all the way to the top of the house, practical. It's wood-burning; I have a wood-fired oven in the kitchen, and the tiled stove looks like a bench. I like to sit on it when it's warm, or even lie down on it—it's good for my back. I put a blanket for Ginger because the stove stone gets very hot when it's lit. 😊

My village this morning with fresh snow. ❄️

From my mountains:

Happy Birthday Algy! All the best. 🧡 💐 🦋

Ginger & Mina!

Have a nice weekend, here we have the Sahara dust crossing the country, mostly in Spring and Autumn, where we lived in the past, each year we had the sky completely orange, quite beautiful to look at but not good for asthma.