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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...

So on Tuesday I went to Great Comp, which is a lovely garden not too big, not expensive to get into £12. Nice plants starting to come through, the man who owns it, is the countries expert on Salvias, they’re not showing yet. The Daffodils are on the verge of going over, to be replaced by tulips...

Myosotis sylvatica (Forget-me-not)Euonymus fortuneiBrunnera Macrophylla 'Jack Frost'Saxifraga urbium (London Pride) and hailstonesEpimedium

Good morning all. Sun, blue sky and still air this morning. Huge contrast to yesterday but happy to see it! I left putting my bins out until late last night - when the wind had died down - as I wanted to avoid having to pick up 'stuff' in the Cres. had they been blown over. All is fine. Off to...

It’s much calmer this morning with peeps of sun. It will gather cloud throughout the day, but should be dry.

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.

Not much just topped up the blueberry pots with fresh compost.

I think they were having a tea break at my doctors, nothing against that, just wonder why they all have to have it at the same time.

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!