Brodiaea laxa “Queen Fabiola” is a sparkling joy! [click to embiggen]
It's been rather hot and humid in London again today - and of course, I spent hours in the extensive gardens here at Dolores Delargo Towers, potting-on more specimens that have rapidly outgrown their current space, and watering the whole shebang from end-to end [that's a lot of pots!].
There's one wall-pot that isn't going to be sprayed down with the hose for a while, however - for we have discovered, among the branches of our Fuchsia Viva Ireland (with its companion self-seeded fern), and shaded by a branch of the climbing Fuchsia Lady Boothby, directly opposite our back door to the garden...
...a Robin has made her nest!!
That's a first - for any garden we've had - and it will be lovely to observe [fingers crossed] the pair raise their chicks! If I can do so without disturbing her, I hope to get a pic at some stage.
Meanwhile, let's take a trip to exotic climes, in the company of the ever-wonderful Soft Tempo Lounge, shall we? I think we should:
Just what the doctor ordered.
I wonder if all that hideous brutalist architecture's still standing?
[Music: Orchestra King Zérand - Pop in Mexico]
¡ Que Viva México ! 🇲🇽
ReplyDeleteJe suis ravi du retour de Soft Tempo Lounge :)
* d’Anjou
Soft Tempo Lounge takes us to places (and times) we'll never see... Jx
DeleteRobins! And that gorgeous Brodi. And Soft Tempo...on a squally day here you've perked me up. tvm
ReplyDeleteRobins (not those New World imposters, that are actually just thrushes with waistcoats on) are such cute little birds, and their song is lovely too. I hope for the best with this brood.
DeleteBrodiaea is just an ugly mass of straggly leaves for much of its growing season - much like the Ipheion in Spring - then BOOM! When it flowers, it's so beautiful!
Soft Tempo Lounge is a joy, whatever the weather. Jx
Edith Massey strikes again !
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Where's the Egg Man?! Jx
DeleteA robin nest! That *is* exciting. I'm sure they're used to you and The Madam by now - they'll be landing on your shoulders or sitting on your hands before you know it!
ReplyDeleteThe flowers of Queen Fabiola are indeed fabiola!
P.S. The dive at 1:25 looked like it was going to be much crapper than it actually was. I suspect some editing trickery. And Doris at 1:40 couldn't wait to get hold of that pineapple cocktail - it hadn't stopped wobbling on the table before she'd leaned in for a suck!
It is quite exciting! The robins and wrens are indeed quite used to us - if one sits very still, they go about their business, hunting around inside and under the pots for tasty little aphids, caterpillars and spiders regardless of our presence. We never imagined that trust would mean them choosing to nest right outside the door (and opposite the noisy neighbours' door, too)!
DeleteThe "pineapple cocktail woman" has been downing them since breakfast, the lush... Jx
Beautiful flowers shame about the leaves.
ReplyDeleteAgree totally, Mitzi - if we had proper flower borders we'd still always find a place for "Queen Fabiola", but we'd plant around her to disguise them. Jx
DeleteOh how excited about the robin’s nest! That’s fabiola, queen. (That is SO not me.)
ReplyDeleteOoh! "...you are... a Drag Princess." - Miss Vida Boheme.
DeleteThe Robin has made us very happy. Jx
Might be worth putting a small bowl of water out for the Robin?
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It has been done Ms Scarlet. shallow with a rim so that they can perch on the edge.
DeleteExcellent!! I'm such a worry-wart.
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Bless. Jx
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