I keep all my vegetable peelings to add to my compost bins. I usually try and avoid letting seeds get into it, but obviously sometimes a few still make it into the bin with the peelings. I recently put some of this lovely earthy smelling compost around my lemon tree, growing in a pot next to the side of the swimming pool.
Next thing there was a butternut plant growing out of the pot. I have left it to see what would happen, and it is providing the most wonderful source of gorgeous yellow flowers and pretty green tendrils. There isn't much space for me to photograph these flowers and tendrils without squashing the plant or falling into the pool with my camera, but I am thoroughly enjoying it while I have it. I wonder if it will ever manage to produce butternuts that grow to maturity for us to harvest and consume in this unsuitable and inhospitable environment, but I shall give put extra nutrients into this pot to support both the baby lemon tree, and the butternut plant.
Not quite as busy as bees, and I haven't found a use for ants yet, although I do sometimes wonder if they help pollinate some plants? They seem to be very busy collecting something from inside the little florets of the bromeliad and taking it off somewhere. Do they collect nectar like bees and birds? Does pollen move around on their feet? What are they doing in the flowers? So many questions....
Watching the progress of my bromeliad flower. I really do enjoy the flowers while they last, but I must admit I find it quite difficult to photograph artistically - especially as my plants are growing in the garden in amongst other plants, and wooden railway sleepers etc. So getting good angles isn't the easiest task. I love my tripod for indoor table top photography, but it is just too tall for plants that are low like this, even when I spread the legs. I wonder what good alternatives there are, other than attempting to get really good at hand held shots.
Okay, so I was just reading an article published by DPS called Tips to Help You Start a Successful Blog, and amongst many of the tips I need to pick up is that I need to have a purpose for my blog instead of just drifting along.... Yeah, I guess that makes sense. So as I started this photo blog with Felicia Daisies, and feeling fired up about photographing flowers, perhaps I should revisit my initial intentions and go back to exactly that! This is my photographic journey to learning to take the kinds of flower photographs I see by other fabulous photographers and wish I could achieve something as beautiful. So instead of being too hard on myself because nothing is good enough yet, accept that this is where I am currently, and try and improve along the way. So as one of my bromeliads is flowering right now, why don't I try and improve my vision as I document it's progress.
I keep all my vegetable peelings to add to my compost bins. I usually try and avoid letting seeds get into it, but obviously sometimes a few still make it into the bin with the peelings. I recently put some of this lovely earthy smelling compost around my lemon tree, growing in a pot next to the side of the swimming pool. 
Watching the progress of my bromeliad flower. I really do enjoy the flowers while they last, but I must admit I find it quite difficult to photograph artistically - especially as my plants are growing in the garden in amongst other plants, and wooden railway sleepers etc. So getting good angles isn't the easiest task. I love my tripod for indoor table top photography, but it is just too tall for plants that are low like this, even when I spread the legs. I wonder what good alternatives there are, other than attempting to get really good at hand held shots.
