Sharne's Bits 'n' Bobs: Flower wower!!

Thursday, 21 April 2011

Flower wower!!

Usually as soon as my Tree Paeony comes into bloom, it gets spoilt by wind or rain. This year looks like I could have the blooms for longer than 1 day!!

The flower bloom is almost the size of a dinner plate.

While hubby was up in the loft this evening, he found this. A quick search on Google revealed that it is a Hornet nest. A marvellous feat of engineering. I shall be taking it to work with me next week to show my children as we are doing about bugs this forthcoming term.

6 comments:

Diane Kelsey said...: Be careful invade you ave a live hornets nest somewhere else In the loft.; 21 April 2011 at 08:23
Diane Kelsey said...: Incase not invade and have not ave. I need to proof read more!; 21 April 2011 at 08:25
LOVE STITCHING RED said...: Such a beautiful peony Sharne. How lovely to have it for longer than usual. Mine arn't flowering yet

The hornet's nest is a real find. I'm not sure I have ever seen one before. How large is it?; 21 April 2011 at 14:22
Iz said...: Hope it's an empty one! We have a lot of bees about at the moment...don't really want to investigate in our loft!; 21 April 2011 at 16:49
NEEDLEWINGS said...: Such a lovely shot of the flower and such wonderful detail.

I stepped in a hornet's nest one time while berry picking. I was about 8 or 9 years old at the time and was wearing a swim suit since it was at the lake. My skin was quite exposed and I was stung over 50 times and oh man did that hurt! I remember sitting in the lake trying to keep them cool. I itched like crazy. You wouldn't want to tangle with them!; 25 April 2011 at 04:42
Nuvofelt said...: Lovely peony, the weather has been good to them this year.; 26 April 2011 at 19:21