Parasitic wasp on astrantia. [ATTACH]
Yesterday I noticed for the first time that there were newts in my little pond - it's a year old and up to now I've only seen insects using it....
They're usually quite easy to pull up though. Using a fork to loosen the soil around them before pulling can help. I have a long handled one which...
Actually I've just googled this and "If the hedgehog is moving purposefully and appears well and active, this is probably not a cause for...
Sadly I believe it's a bad sign if they're out during daylight hours.
I'm a software engineer, or as we used to call it, computer programmer. I work from home half the week; more if the office environment is...
Wow - is the thermometer directly in the sun? My living room is 26C which is bad enough. I've opened all the windows but there's no breeze.
How lovely to get damselflies. I had a small red one on my alpine strawberries a few days ago. My pond is tiny, one of the smallest preformed...
I went out to erect the supports on my tomato planters. They are the Lidl planters with a water reservoir and then tiers of plastic rings as...
Brilliant. I love that they had the confidence to build something completely unique.
I planted a goji berry bush, a tiny little thing yellow-stickered in the supermarket for 30p. Less than 3 years later it's a huge sprawling...
[ATTACH] Interaction between magpie and a woodpigeon today. The magpie was hoping to dunk its dry calci-worms, but found the birdbath occupied....
There was a stall selling them at the local car boot sale a few weeks ago, along with marigolds and other bedding plants. I had no idea what they...
Salpiglossis [ATTACH]Spiraea [ATTACH]Astrantia "Cerise Button". [ATTACH]
You know it's too hot when the birds are panting, and faceplanting in the birdbath. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I've noticed that's happened to all sports - when you see news items from a big horse racing meet there's always music blaring out.
And the history/archaeology type programs that always have to have a background of choral music - basically people going oooo-OOOO-oooo, and it...
Cranefly on a zinnia leaf and longhorn beetle on bramble. There were lots of the beetles flying around today and they looked weird in flight and...
Campanula [ATTACH]Borage [ATTACH]One of my new hardy fuchsias, I think it's probably "Shrimp Cocktail"[ATTACH]This appeared when I...
My grandmother got converted by visiting Jehovah's Witnesses, and my cousins and their children are still in the cult to this day. Gran took the...
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