Flora and fauna
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♥Oct. 5th, 2014 // 04:54 pm♥
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We took Jo to the beach this afternoon. Astonishingly, lots of other people had had the same idea on a nice sunny Sunday just after the end of the no-dogs season, so she got to run around chasing after dogs who were chasing after balls.
This was odd. Presumably there was a quicksand-ish patch:
We ended up cutting Saturday's side saddle lesson short, because GB's leg wasn't right. We've got our normal lessons tomorrow morning, so I changed the plan and we're going to not swap horses, so that he can get a good work-out and I can get a second opinion. Annoyingly, the lovely horse chiro lady has proved to be impossible to get hold of, even though I resorted to actually /phoning/ her a few times, and leaving voicemail messages. She's good friends with our instructor, so I'm going to see if she has any idea what's going on but, otherwise, I think I'm going to have to give up on her. On the plus side, SS instructor mentioned (in passing) that there's a good good one who lives not far from us, so I think I'll ask for the number and try her.
Baby also wasn't quite right this morning when Mike got on him: he was very lacking in energy, even when I threatened him with the lunge whip and then got on him myself. Hopefully, that's just the change in the weather, though.
In the conservatory, I've planted some Bleeding Heart seeds, and the first of the sweet peas, and I've potted up some of the seedlings that I planted a few weeks ago: mostly salvias and a few of these. I've just realised that, using the same logic as with the sweet peas, I should try planting some of the mange tout seeds that I bought now, rather than waiting until the spring as the packet instructs. (We never get anything like mange tout in the veg box, so I thought I'd give it a try.)
Plant identification corner: does anyone know what these are?
This has very pretty flowers, so I'd like to keep it, but it also looks like it's been chopped right back to the ground in the past, so I want to check how it's supposed to be pruned.
This has very distinctive, slightly pinkish-red berries with four lobes. Mostly, I want to know if it's deadly poisonous, as there's a (presumably bird-poo-related) one growing in the field. Spindle? If so, I think it needs to go! |
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