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IN OUR GARDENS 2025

We have a sort of vine appear to if I can get it on here I will try. The leaves are about 3 inches long heart shaped but more like a tongue. I wonder if some of them come from the supposed seeding free bird seeds. As we get corn growing too.
 
devonjim said:
My ,we had some rain last night down here in South West, garden pond went from about a foot below it's normal level to full to brim. Refilling aided by the water diverted from the downpipe on a conservatory using a device meant for water butts but adapted with a 7m length of plastic corrugated tube that routes the water into the pond.
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A quote from April 16th.'25. Pond level up at this level again today for the first time since April. Shows what a prolonged spell of dry weather we have enjoyed.
 
devonjim said:
A quote from April 16th.'25. Pond level up at this level again today for the first time since April. Shows what a prolonged spell of dry weather we have enjoyed.
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Friend has given me his parents' old bird bath. I was touched, he is moving to Brum soon to a flat. It has a faded inscription, in the sun or in the rain wherever you are you are closer to God in the garden. Or something like that. A robin used the old bird bath today in the pouring rain. He has started coming in the garage where I keep the food. I don;t know if he is the one from last year or a new one. He is very tame when food is concerned.
 
pjmburns said:
Could be a hawkbit. There is a yellow one often confused with dandelion but I can't remember what the leaves are like.
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Will look at the leaves closely. It isn't Cats Ear. Our lilac tree was split in the storm today. I hope no one else had a rough time. Then a second upright came down I have tied up a 3rd with old hanging basket chains. It was a bout 10 feet high but it's now 8. We have what my partner's mum called eglantine which has shot up over it that might be the cause. I thought that was a dog rose?. It has small white flowers, there is a pink one even bigger that has droopy bigger pink petals. Might be an old-fashioned rose. I tied up the cone flowers and honeysuckle I used our grandson's helium balloon string. .Waste not want not, He left it for us to deflate. Moved the Dill or whatever it is, it is getting too big, growing over the window in height and it has blown over & uprooted twice, but there is more coming up. I have seen it in other peoples' gardens round here.
 
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