Fagus sylvatica.
A Beech tree.
They get everywhere.
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Paeonia ‘Bowl of Beauty’
This true beauty wasn’t out in time for the Bloomers post last week.
It’s a bit more lipstick than the pink I would normally go for, but you can’t fail to notice it.
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And it isn’t just the baby woodpeckers who have been enjoying the fruits of Woodrow’s industry.
As soon as he appears, a retinue of scavengers assembles too.
A female blackbird collecting manna from heaven for her chick.
But what’s this?
Grrrrrr!!
At least its not in your house!!
True.. not yet anyway.
I saw a mouse where? There on the stair right there…..I will be humming this song all afternoon now! lol!
🙂
NOT Grrrrr Jessica. Ahhhhh 😉
Mice are like squirrels CT, very cute whilst there’s only one.. 😉
You’ve got to admire his nerve … !
He has a hole under that aster.. and is very quick to withdraw when big bird turns up!
That’s the best peony I’ve ever seen I think. As for Mousey, the less said the better except that Jill is right re: the house!
It’s certainly a striking one isn’t it.
Beautiful peony. I don’t mind mice in the garden, they’re almost sweet! Julie x
Almost..
Love the wayward Beech tree! Looks like someone’s (a wee mousie? – sorry!!) woodland home….. Beautiful paeony. The brown fella looks as if he’s eyeing up your sprinkler system?
I need to move the drip heads from there, because no plant yet has managed to survive the constant trampling of bird feet.. the pheasant being by far the worst offender.
Lol….I have the same problem with trees shooting up in basket, and I have the exact same peony which has three blooms on this year….yours has opened more than mine though.
Awww….I love the blackbird feeding it’s chick, I’m brainwashed at the moment….seeing that gaping beak almost had me running for the tweezers and the mealworm!!!
And the mouse is sooooooo cute….OY, don’t scowl like that!!!! lol xxxx
Scowl, scowl.
It wasn’t even supposed to be in the shot.. it just turned up while I was waiting for more birds.
If that mouse could talk, I bet it would be saying, ‘Oh-oh…I’ve been spotted. Better get out the comedy nose and moustache disguise.’
Honestly, I have never seen a more guilty-looking creature!
Or. Damn GPS, the tunnel wasn’t supposed to come up here..
What a beautiful peony. Ours hasn’t flowered yet, but has lots of buds, despite only being planted last year.
I am amazed this one survived, also planted last year. The emerging shoots look extremely delicate. And then Ptolemy decided to use that spot for a dust bath.
hoping our mouse has moved outside, too!!! gotta admit, they are pretty darn cute….from afar!
He can have the nut droppings I suppose, better that than nibbling the plants.
You know what the say about mice….. ” if you see one there are at least 8 to 10 more”.
I hope they are wrong.
They are right. They are all in the tool shed..
Ah well I have cats… and they like to mouse – but sadly sometimes they get a bird. I’m sad both times.
This is why I’ve put off having a cat, much as I would like one. 🙁
Saplings coming up in the wrong place always look so healthy, I feel guilty pulling them up. We always have Ash saplings shooting up between the flowers. I love the Blackbird and Fledgling and I imagine the mouse can’t believe his luck with the bird food right there before him.
With me it’s usually oak – the squirrels and their acorns no doubt. I don’t think even the squirrel could have reached this one though.
I had never seen that particular type of paeonia … gorgeous. !
I’ve wanted one for a while, I hope it will thrive here.
you have to admit, he’s kinda cute….
This is my problem with wildlife, even the pests are cute!
Cheeky mouse! The peony does stand out and is rather lovely. It’s amazing what self-seeding plants are shooting up at the moment all in the wrong places!
This one has embedded its roots in the basket, it will be quite a challenge to extract it!
I haven’t seen my little mouse since I moved the bird feeder, give me mice over rats any day, & yours does look like a nice cheeky chap.
You’re right Joanne, mice are far preferable to rats. And they are certainly cheeky!
Bowl of Beauty is one of the new paeonies I planted this year and I’m waiting for it to flower. Now I’ve seen what it’s really going to look like, I can’t wait!!
I know I shouldn’t say ‘Bless it’, but that little mouse…so cute.
I hope you enjoy it Paula.. I think you will!
So they’re still around then, even if you have thwarted their petrol habit. I love that Bowl of Beauty, a very apt name, it’s so unusual.
They’re still around. Nuts are better for them I suppose.
Tee hee. (sorry….)
Humph.
I can’t believe you said pests are cute … when have you ever seen a cute slug?!
That mouse is cute though … I reckon he gatecrashed your photo shoot, best side to the fore, so we’d all realise what darlings he and his chums are and side with the mice in the battle of the tool shed!
Mice are smart. It’s all part of their master plan.
You would win BEST IN SHOW with that bloom in our flower show
It would win the category for Surviving Against All The Odds.
Your peony is beautiful. Great shot of the mouse. It could be worse, at least it’s not rats!
You’re right. I dread rats..
That peony is spectacular! And I love the birds. We have baby woodpeckers all over our garden right now and they sound like squeaky toys. So cute. THey love the suet feeders.
Nice mouse! 🙂
Suet goes down well here too.. they are eating us out of house and home!
The mouse must have heard that you have been photographing all the other wildlife in the garden and wanted to get in the act too! It wouldn’t stand much of a chance in our garden with our cat!
Sarah x
They are photogenic, I have to admit.
It is cute! The animals around your neck of the woods are very bold indeed!!!
There are few cheekier than that mouse!
We just see them as ‘owl food’. It’s bluddy irritating though to be working at the opposite end of the garden and find a small cache of hazelnuts that they’ve stolen from the squirrel feeder. Amazing how far the furry little s*ds can carry them!
We do seem to have a lot of owls. I’m ever hopeful.