Category Archives: plants

Birthday Tulips + free e-cards for Mother’s Day / Birthday

Posted on March 12, 2021 by Oscar Dandelion

Please scroll to the bottom of this post for the free e-cards if you don’t wish to read my update 🙂 I had another birthday – that tends to happen each and every year if you’re still about 😉 – … Continue reading →

Posted in Abuse, health, life, plants | Tagged anxiety, birthday, borderline, bpd, chronic illness, chronic pain, depression, free birthday card, free e-card, free ecard, free mother's day card, lillies, lilly, lily, lockdown, Mental health, physical disability, tulips | 12 Comments

2021

Posted on January 15, 2021 by Oscar Dandelion

Hello dear reader 🙂 I wish you a positive and healthy 2021. Below, is an update. I tried keeping it brief. I hadn’t meant to be away for so long. When living with chronic poor health you have to prioritise … Continue reading →

Posted in Cactus and succulent plants, dogs, health, life, nature, plants, short story | Tagged dogs, Faith McCord, flowers, garden, handmade cards, life, nature, plants, short stories, story | 7 Comments

Hedgerows: Dusk #2

Posted on July 26, 2020 by Oscar Dandelion

. 24th July 2020 It was dusk and I went back to the road with the country hedgerows. They’re flourishing which is good to see. The blackberries are beginning to ripen, the chammomile made an appearance and there were other … Continue reading →

Posted in dogs, life, nature, plants | Tagged countryside, dogs, hedgerows, life, nature, photos, skies, wild flowers, wildflowers | 9 Comments

Hedgerows: Wild flowers + silver linings #1 (photos July 2014)

Posted on July 25, 2020 by Oscar Dandelion

. July 2014 One day while coming home I stopped off on a road near my house. The wild flowers so struck me with their beauty that I stopped the car and took a few photographs. . . It’s not … Continue reading →

Posted in life, nature, plants | Tagged Cyril Cole, farming, hedgerows, meadow hay farmer, my road, nature, wild flowers, wildflowers | 7 Comments

Decorated bug houses, seedlings, vegan-sausage pasta (photos)

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Oscar Dandelion

. 17th July 2020 Photos I took of the newly decorated bug houses I recently got from Asda. And the kitchen seedlings of tomatoes – I really must pot them up though it’s probably too late! – and the ‘mystery’ … Continue reading →

Posted in life, nature, plants | Tagged bees, beetles, bug houses, butterflies, fun, growing plants, insect houses, insects, life, mystery plants, nature, photos, plantlets, plants, seedlings, sun, tomato seedlings, tomatoes, vegan food | 10 Comments

Patio’s flowers + dogs (photos)

Posted on July 23, 2020 by Oscar Dandelion

. 10th July 2020 Photos I took during a burst of sunshine on the patio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . * Copyright Faith McCord 2020 Story and artwork belongs to Faith McCord … Continue reading →

Posted in dogs, life, plants | Tagged dogs, flowers, hosepipe snake, July, life, patio, photos, plants, sunny, sunshine | 4 Comments

Potted Up! – or potted up and peed on – (photos of tea rose + blueberry etc)

Posted on July 9, 2020 by Oscar Dandelion

. 29th June 2020 Photos I took of the tea rose with biden flowers and the blueberry bush with miniature pansies after potting them up in lovely, new, big pots. Unfortunately, despite it being midday it was a gloomy … Continue reading →

Posted in dogs, life, nature, plants | Tagged biden, blueberry, Chihuahua, chronic illness, chronic pain, Clematis, container gardening, container plants, daisies, disabled gardening, dogs, hydrangea, lemon balm, mint, pansies, patio flowers, patio plants, physical disability, silver cushion, tea rose | 2 Comments

The new bug houses arrived :D (photos)

Posted on July 8, 2020 by Oscar Dandelion

. My bug boxes (insect houses) finally arrived! They came with my Asda food grocery delivery, I bought two. Last time they were out of stock. They’re excellent value for money £3 each. Even come with a metal loop to … Continue reading →

Posted in life, nature, plants | Tagged beatles, bees, beetles, bug box, bug boxes, bug house, bug houses, butterflies, conserve bugs, conserve insects, decorate bug box, decorate bug hotel, decorate bug house, decorate insect hotel, decorate insect house, garden, help bugs, help insects, home, insect box, insect house, nature, pollinators, wild life, wild life garden, wildlife, wildlife garden | 6 Comments

Ripening + blooming + emerging (photos)

Posted on June 29, 2020 by Oscar Dandelion

. 24th June 2020 Photos I took of the ripening blueberries, the blooming of the hydrangea. And, of course, the small new potatoes just emerged from where I threw a couple of potatoes in a plant pot, late last year. … Continue reading →

Posted in life, plants | Tagged blueberries ripening, container gardening, disabled gardening, grow food, grow new potatoes, hydrangea blooming, patio plants, physical disability, plants | 5 Comments

In the garden (photos)

Posted on June 28, 2020 by Oscar Dandelion

. 23rd June 2020 Photos I took on another hot day, the patio plants, John and the dogs in the garden, the update with the growing tomato seedlings (and mystery seedling). I like seeing how my little container garden evolves … Continue reading →

Posted in dogs, life, plants | Tagged Bidens, big daisies, blooms, blueberry, Chihuahua, container gardening, disabled gardening, dogs, ferns, flowers, garden, growing food, growing tomatoes, Jack Russell, June day, June garden, June plants, nature, pansies, patio plants, photographs, photos, physical disability, plants, ragged daisies, rose, sunny garden, Tiger lilly, tomato seedlings, trees | 12 Comments