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I was very fortunate to get an image of a coyote this winter, as they are very wary.Evidence indicates that coyotes reached New York and the Northeast in the early 1930s and 1940s, with coyote range expansion first reaching the state by passing north of the Great Lakes and into northern New...

I specifically went to visit the salvia nursery and spend money @Busy-Lizzie , but the garden itself was lovely and an unexpected bonus.I also visited Hever Castle as a big fan of Tudor history. I'd love to go again and visit when the tulips are in bloom. I've heard it's beautiful.

More cherry trees at Capel Manor, planted as part of the Hanami project with Japan.

What a wonderful display there, @Allotment Boy. Today is set aside for tending to the seedlings and weeding. I've got a beef casserole burbling in the slow cooker, to be had with jackets, so I don't have to break off and spend precious time cooking later. Well, that's the plan!

6c currently and feels colder. There has been rain over night and the fleece wrapped around the tree fern had some ice. 9c today, sun is shining. Warmer from Monday on, if the forecast is right. You know the models are correct but the weather doesn’t understand what it has to do

Durlston Country Park cliffs. Razorbills.Northern Fulmar Petrel.Guillemots.One in a hundred or so has a white eye ring and known as a Bridled Guillemot but spectacled would be a more apt description.

After high winds and hailstorms yesterday, today is much better. A chance to repot my hostas which have been in the same sized pots for two years. I have larger pots which will be fine.I saw these when looking at the Crocus website yesterday - "slug resistant" pots with some wool wrapped...

Even the new vans weather it petrol or diesal are alot queiter now, and yes they motter down countryside lanes, we have the same problem and it's going to be a bad accident to sort it out, but even then people won't see what the problem is, i live on a blind bend and the amount of close one's...

Give me a few days ( weeks/months ?) to digest that and I'll try again. It is frustrating and I sometimes wish I was back in the '70's when I had "proper" cameras, my own dark room and developed and printed my own pics. I knew what I was doing then

Yes that was him @CarolineL . He was very knowledgeable but he didn't mention Dendelions.Very interesting @NigelJ ...@On the Levels My mother said she used to make sandwiches of Dendelion leaves when she was little, much to the disgust of my grandmother !

I brought something quite nice for my allotment area.. I has previously been looking for Gardenia 'Crown Jewel', but at the local nursery I stumbled upon a cultivar I had not heard of before; Gardenia 'Double Diamond', so I purchased it without second thought. It is fairly cold hardy but more...

Thanks Simply stunning photography. That bark spider is ridiculous!