Salaric Gardening and Wildlife

Thank Rose – Red Dwarf

Our friends Ulrike and Mike got us these lovely dwarf roses as a thankyou for letting them stay for my husband 30th birthday party! They not only had lots and lots of flowers only half of which where open when they gave it too us but we had it inside as our table flower for about 6 weeks before all the blooms went – it is several pllants which I am going to plant out into the rose bed I made last year – most of the roses I planted from similar presants have survived though I’ve noticed that once no longer pot bound they often decide they are not dwarf roses after all!

Mr Fox

I was sitting in my little girls room reading to her when I saw what I initially thought was one of out cats coming to sit in the gully outside our house but it wasn’t it was a fox.

We rushed down stairs and without thinking I opened the front door to look and there was a fox with a largish bird in its muzzel on my front door steep staring at me!

Unfortunatly by the time I had my composure and camera it was high tailing it away.

Missing Frog No 2

The other frog appears to have disappeared from Jean’s frogarium which is a shame the mark two tadpols are still swimming around in their happily and the pond snail is still munching the algea. My sinarious are a) they’ve climbed up the side and hopped away hopefully without encountering cats b) Hydrogen who had a tendency to watch them has eaten them as a kitty snack by fishing them out of the pot in which case I should have put a lid on the put (I hadn’t done this so that insects would get in as a froggy supper) or c) they have mysteriously died and been consumed by the mark 2 tadpols leaving no trace.

I’m going for option a) and as far as my 3 yr olds concerned it is a cat free a)!

The Froggarium worked much better than I was expecting though which is great and we will definatly be doing this again next year.

Basically it has taught Jean about animals and plants all being connected ie it needs the pond weed, the plant, the snail, water lavea and the tadpols to actually work without all of this the tadpoles simply die :/

I am waiting to see if the mark 2 tadpols actually turn into anything now – they do seem very very behind.

Frog on the Run?

The frogs have been getting more and more climby and I can only see one in the Frogarium today :/ I have looked even removing the sitting stones and the plant but there is just no sign of it so I’m hoping it has climbed out and hoped away to saftey and is not residing inside one of the cats tummys!

Or behind the oven decomposing etc…