While gardening this morning and photographing
“Where’s Nugget?” (83),
Jackie turned to admire her mushrooms
and was amazed to find that warning off gnomes had been of no avail.
This afternoon we jointly continued Jackie’s work on refurbishing the front garden. The Head Gardener weeded, pruned, and planted and I raked, swept, and added refuse to the black compost bin. As usual, the gallery can be accessed by clicking on any image.
Robin Ronnie, still feeding a family in the field across Christchurch Road, was rather disappointed to find that the bird feeders have, for the summer, been replaced by hanging baskets.
“Where’s Ronnie?”
Later, we visited the pharmacy at Milford on Sea for a repeat prescription, after which we took a drive into the forest, uneventful save for
an opportunity to study the back of a tractor and trailer travelling at 10 m.p.h. for the whole length of Jordans Lane and even into Pilley Street before Jackie managed to turn off right.
This evening Jackie produced a meal of cheese centred haddock fish cakes; in the absence of any macaroni, her own penne cheese; and juicy ratatouille, with which she drank Becks and I finished the Fleurie.
A gnome simply HAD to arrive – that was inevitable.
You got me with Nugget today. I thought I saw him in a couple of places, but since the picture doesn’t enlarge, I couldn’t prove it to myself.
Love those mushrooms, perfect home for a gnome.
There is a technique to biggification. I put all the single pictures in a gallery ‘box’ to make it possible. Scrolling down any gallery picture gives an option to ‘view full size’ under the picture. Then it can be enlarged twice more. That has in fact always been so, but we are not told unless we do scroll.
Thanks very much, GP.
Yes, I worked that out and found Nugget! No enlargement needed for Ronnie later!
Well spotted, Sandra.
Got him!
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A gnome?
Good choice.
I bought a Buddha.
A sleepy, fatty, happy one.
🙂 Thank you very much, Kavitha.
Oh my! That gnome reminded me of a little Derrick Knight peeking through the flowers. 🙂 I love those mushrooms!
Hahaha. It does!
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Indeed – they can take any form they wish, and this one is ‘avin’ a larf.
😀
Thanks very much, Jill. They can take any form they wish. This one was ‘avin’ a larf.
I just love your garden tours… waves across the miles..
Thanks very much, Dymoon 🙂
It’s fun to see where Jackie installed the mushrooms and how beautifully she has landscaped around them. What a perfect birthday gift! I love the flower photos… the white puffy ones (are they roses?) are so gorgeous! And I can just imagine the patience it took to follow such a distance at 10 mph! Glad she was finally able to turn off. Thank you for that closeup of Nugget. What a character he is! Adds such joy to the garden of life!! <3
Thank you very much, Jan. The rose is the rambler Félicité Perpétue named for two black early christian martyrs. https://derrickjknight.com/2015/06/25/felicite-perpetue/
How interesting! I love learning the history of how things get named! <3 Thank you for sharing. <3
I love the little gnome! Now I wonder where he came from? And thank you for the close up of the purple clematis and nasturtiums, a very pleasing combination. Everything looks so beautiful!
I couldn’t find Nugget in the first picture. Biggification doesn’t seem to work anymore.
There is a technique to biggification. I put all the single pictures in a gallery ‘box’ to make it possible. Scrolling down any gallery picture gives an option to ‘view full size’ under the picture. Then it can be enlarged twice more. That has in fact always been so, but we are not told unless we do scroll.
The gnome came all the way from our sister-in-law’s at Swindon in Wiltshire. I think they just have to say “beam me up Scotty”.
Thanks very much, Lavinia.
I see him now!
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The gnomes went down *very* well with my littlest one 🙂🌿
I found Ronnie, but not Nugget. So, if you put out wooden mushrooms, gnomes appear? 😏
The flowers are beautiful!
So it would seem, Merril
Watch it they gnomes breed like rabbits.
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Ah. But our garden is full of owls to thin them out a bit. Thanks a lot, Gary.
Gasp!!! A gnomish interloper! How dare in invade the sanctuary of the garden, how dare he . . .
Apparently gnomes protect your garden. Thanks very much, Liz
Oh! So that’s why the deer eat our hostas down to nubs. We have no gnomes!
Most likely 🙂
Gnome sweet gnome.
Good comment, Tootlepedal. Thanks a lot.
Absolutely gorgeous. Did not do well on hunt the Robins!
I’m worried about Ronnie Robin feeding a family when everything else is competing for food at the same time and his feeding ground, the regular food source has disappeared in favour of lovely flowering hanging baskets.
Thanks very much, Sue. Most rivals have finished their feeding of offspring. Now they just eat all the food. Robins do go on longer, but find good pickings from turned over soil – although it is very hard at the moment.
Most birds up here are still feeding youngsters, I momentarily forgot the differences between north and south, the breeding season starts a little later up here. Thank you, Derrick.
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Jackies ‘mushrooms’ are looking magnificent in their spot Derrick….. there’s no stopping those gnomes though….😀
🙂 Thanks very much, Ivor.
Thank you for capturing Nugget, who occupies the bottom left corner of the frame, and me too, under the mushrooms! Now that I have finally managed to sneak into your garden, I realise how gigantic you and Jackie are!!! Talking of size, that tractor-trailer certainly has an attitude. Good that Jackie took the right turn.
Thank you very much, gnome Uma. Well spotted
What a cute gnome! Mr Nugget is sitting on the grass, bottom left of the photo, and Ronnie is perched on the rock, also in the left part but not as close to the bottom.
Well spotted all round, Dolly. Thanks very much.
You are very welcome, Derrick.
Absolutely beautiful
Thanks very much, More.
Gnomes often find a home in our front garden. Some visit the neighbours gardens and gnomes from the neighbours gardens visit our garden. 🙂
It’s amazing how birds return to the same location each Spring. Fascinating.
Thanks very much, Chrissy. Yes, fascinating. Pigeons born on our daughter’s balcony returned for their own breeding.
Gnome Derrick is adorable! I have a little gnome who sits with his hands in prayer, sort of Buddha like.
Thanks very much, JoAnna.
Oh derrick the dwarf is absolutely lovely
🙂 Thank you very much, Yoshimi
Glad to see you’re now providing “Ghomes for Gnomes”.
🙂 Gthanks a lot, John
I think the little gnome is a delightful addition. Perfectly sized to sit under a mushroom so he will keep nice and dry. I’m sure Jackie will quickly learn to love him!
🙂 Thanks very much, Sandra
Didn’t find Nugget, but got a kick out of your wooden mushrooms. Like them a lot! 🙂
Thanks very much, Anna.
Found Nugget! Tell Jackie I have mushroom envy. I especially like that little gnome.
Thank you very much, Laurie. Well spotted, Will do.
I love the mushrooms!
Thanks very much, Helen
As usual Nugget is inspecting his garden…but was pretty difficult to spot him 🤪
Those mushrooms were irresistible for the gnomes 😉
Well spotted, Ribana. Thanks very much.
I drove past my old house last week. They have cut down Fred the Gnome’s three. It is gone. No more. It is an ex-tree. It is now a gravel car park. And I don’t know where Fred and family have gone. I am just a tiny bit upset.
That’s progress, I guess. Thanks a lot, John
T’is the very perverseness of gnomes that if they’re warned off, they do the very opposite of the warning! 😀
🙂 Thanks very much, Widders
Beautiful, Derrick. I love the little gnome village. 🙂
Thanks very much, Diana
😀 The gnomes made it to their natural habitat. I wonder who led them there 🙂
That would be telling. Thanks very much, Geetha
Welcome Derrick 🙂
The mushrooms…a great home for gnomes! 😉 Why? Because gnomes are fun-guys! 😀 😛
HUGS!!! 🙂
🙂 Trust you to come up with that one, Carolyn. Thank you very much X
oh gosh. It took me a minute.
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You have THREE robin visitors? Word is getting out!
Indeed, Crystal. Thank you very much.