A load of old Ferns

It has occurred to me that this blog is suppose to be about our garden as well as nature(birds!) so here’s what we did to our front garden a number of years back.  Our front garden has a number of problems but the number one problem is cats and the fact that they poo all over it, so we turned all the beds over to ferns in a bid to cut out any bit of spare ground for them to dig in - I hasten to add that we don’t have a cat which makes it even more annoying and one of the eight that roam around here has also just had a nest full of Blackbird chicks in the front garden so they are not flavour of the month.  Anyway back to Ferns, we have around 20 different species so don’t assume all the images below are the same! I have been trying to get some half decent images for weeks now but it is always windy and today is no exception so I know most of them are not sharp but if I waited much longer they would be covered in snow - speaking of which all the Ferns survived the winter except our one and only Tree Fern - our own fault we should have protected it

Now imagine if we had eight of these cats - they would soon see off the locals - taken in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in South Africa not Normanby.