Welcome to my Postage Stamp Garden
May 2026
The tadpoles are legion in our tiny pond But the waters turned coverable green and probably because we had had the pump off ever since the spawn hatched.
Watering the garden today and Maggie noticed a damselfly which we so rarely get in the garden and taking a look at it turns out it’s a large red damselfly which we’ve never had in the garden before.
Not yet got an ID on the fella below – moths are a mystery to me!
Small Dusty Wave Idaea seriata
2023 Update
2022 Update
Verdant again
2020 Update…
The new bit… we extended the border and raised it to make it easier for us oldies.
The lavender/triffid hybrid
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Welcome to the Fat Gardener. Expect this to be my least sophisticated website devoted to my tiny urban garden and the critters that find their way into it. It is really no more than a glorified patio with a garden shed and our garage roof
I will have plenty of pictures on this site… but I am no photographer… so they will be ‘record shots’ taken with my mobile phone or cheap digital camera.
This is a 2019 update of the same area… that bush was blocking out so much light!
I am not an entomologist either so do not expect 100% accuracy as to the species of insects and other invertebrates that I note. I will do my very best but cannot guarantee to get the identity right every time… despite ‘a little help from my friends’.
There will be general notes and thoughts and pages devoted to each animal group.
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