What is on your patio?

A pile of scaffolding. My husband (a retired builder) is convinced that it is the only place to keep it safe. As he has Alzheimer's disease there is no persuading him otherwise. Perhaps I should take Shysal's lead and cover it with fairy lights.

Wooden table 6 chairs. Two large pots with flowering hostas, two large pots with conifers, 5 large pots with pansies, bird feeder and parasol which today would be good for hiding from rain. Bottom patio 4 chairs, two tables, 3 pots bamboo, two pots of pansies, cuttings of daphne plant, various herbs in pots. Another parasol. No BBQ equipment, dumped it for a teriyaki grill. Squirrels, crows, magpies, robins and a sneaky rabbit. (No idea how the rabbit got in, going to have to check the fence again.)

In a narrow flower bed next to the patio some wildflower seeds
were sown last year. So we now have a rather straggly set of
chicory growing, quite tall but with beautiful blue flowers which fade during the day. New flowers open each morning and are surrounded by small bees which we watch whilst sitting on a bench with cups of coffee.

My patio is a riot of colour with flowers in pots ll sown and grown from seeds by myself.

Ex council tin bins against a shed with canes supporting my runner beans and French beans, we had 2 runners yesterday each and 1 French bean each for dinner, 1st of this year's crop! Steamed with mini summer squash, mangetout, the odd sugar snap bean, last of the broad beans, red epicure, and new spuds, all homegrown!

Thanks for the info about the slow-worm. Hope I never meet one! haha. No reptiles here, just birds (mostly robins and sparrows) and snails. My frog pot has a geranium that has not even started to bloom yet, it's been so cold and damp here. The strawberries are blooming, but we need some sun if they will turn to fruit!

What lovely photos from you all! Looe will have to be on my list if I ever make it over there!

Here’s my wet corner, which gets the most sun, so there is an espeliered apple along the fence, and some comfy chairs.

I had two hedgehogs last night chomping at the little pile of dry kitten food I left out (and both water troughs upturned). I moved from London to Lincolnshire and now never see a fox, but so many hedgehogs!

We have had an eruption of flying ants!! Otherwise lots of lovely plants in my patio

Building blocks to make the patio XD

I’m glad to say no slowworms on our patio just some pots of Geraniums. All my other annual bedding plants are so poor this year - just too dry/windy/warm.

My patio pots and NO wasps nest😀

Not this year, but a couple of years ago we had this little beauty visiting our patio outside the kitchen door just before Christmas...and no, we didn't have pheasant for our Christmas dinner that year!

A chaffinch on the patio window handle. Hoping to come in perhaps?

On my patio, at the moment is one of my DGS sitting under the trampoline eating a beef burger.

We have too. One pot has about a dozen, another 6 or 7 and the 3rd pot has 1.

Allira

Pots of fuchsias and geraniums in flower, a pot of agapanthus buds that look promising 🤞 and more agapanthus plants without a single bud!
It's still sunny and breezy, a very pleasant temperature.

Oh, here come the noisy seagulls again!! Nothing for you here.
Someone has just started a grinding machine behind the fence.

Allira, I have the same problem with Agapanthus this year, 5 buds on the largest pot and none on the 3 others. The leaves look healthy and I protected them over winter, so rather disappointing.

I’m sorry but this post needs a trigger warning . All my life I have been petrified of earthworms and I nearly panicked when I saw your photo.

I remember putting my hand in a bag of home-made compost once and encountering one.

Not sure if people have answered about the slow worm, so I will.

They are protected in the U.K. and are actually legless lizards. Maybe 10” long. We used to get a lot in our compost heap on the allotment.

Not remotely dangerous.

Pots of fuchsias and geraniums in flower, a pot of agapanthus buds that look promising 🤞 and more agapanthus plants without a single bud!
It's still sunny and breezy, a very pleasant temperature.

Oh, here come the noisy seagulls again!! Nothing for you here.
Someone has just started a grinding machine behind the fence.

Well right now this view! Glorious Devon, this picture doesn't do justice to it. The wildlife tends to be dive bombing seagulls, not so good.

How lovely Beechnut. They are lovely creatures. I’ve only seen one once in the flesh and it was when we were walking in the gardens at Cragside a few years ago, so although not on a patio, it was on a path. It stayed there quite a while and a few of us had the opportunity to to admire it before it slithered away into some undergrowth.

Call it what you will Sue11d - patio, yard, path, garden, whatever. I think we all get the gist of what Beechnut was asking, no need to pull her up on it, surely?

Ants, woodlice, snails. Chairs under refurb and a whole load of plants that seem to prefer my patio to their proper place in the flower beds.

Right at this moment - a load of chemical dust of the "belt ants for six" type - as for yet another summer there are ants running around that area. I hope I can get shot of them once and for all this year. My main concern being how they're running around right beside one of my house walls and I have a nasty fear they might be lurking at the outer edge (it's West Wales - and that means this house is constructed of those huge concrete blocks in 2 layers with a layer of insulation in between them - darn it). I am hoping to get that modern style cladding put up on all the exterior walls of the house - rather than the current rendered and then painted finish it's got.

On the patio itself - a patio umbrella that turned out to be too tall and too heavy for little me to operate - but I suppose it serves a purpose of making it plain "It's a back garden - and so it's private....even if it isn't" iyswim. It was worrying after I bought the house to be told the "garden beyond" my back garden had an attempt for planning permission for garden grabbing!!!!! Thankfully it had failed - and I think my back garden is safe from any problems from that direction now - given they've copied what I've done with my garden (raised beds full of food-growing, fruit trees, greenhouse set-up) and so I think it should be okay.

Apart from the garden umbrella - a set of garden table and chairs, an apple tree (that is supposed to be a plum tree - and they sent me the wrong one and no reply to my complaint it's got the wrong fruit starting to grow on it!). Also a fig tree, an olive tree, a couple of pots of herbs, a hazelnut tree.