Good luck, my friend - it's so worthwhile and very rewarding. The creatures you attract also keep down the garden pests so it's a "win win...
Watching garden wild life is a real bonus isn't it :D We have bats and I love to watch them in the evening. Haven't seen any sparrows for...
They sure are, Jay :D Orchids are still mysterious and exotic even though some are bred in captivity and sold in Sainsbury's! What is it...
Britain's wild orchids are fascinating and elusive. The Bee Orchid can be thick on the ground one year, absent entirely the next and just one or...
Thanks for the Wildlife Corner, Nathan :DThis is a Burnet Moth, but I'm not sure if it is the Six Spot Burnet or the Five Spot Burnet. It is...
Now I know what www. stands for - Wonderful, Wonderful Waco
Found at last :D :D Searching for years and today was the day :D May seem odd to you, but its been a Holy Grail for me :D I found...
The cinnabar caterpillar absorbs toxins from the ragwort and becomes poisonous itself. Hence its warning stripes telling the birds that he is...
Thanks BM - nice one :D
We have photos of hedgehogs, birds, bees, butterflies, moths, beetles etc and they are scattered in various places. Could we have a wildlife...
:confused: Are you casting doubt upon my veracity Dendo? I use an electric hedge trimmer on the David Austin roses, forsythia, yew, prunus and...
I have a big box by the car port. Its been there since long before we moved in. Every so often I go over it with the hedge cutters as it blocks...
We do not have any native rhodos. The troublesome horrors that blanket Scottish and Welsh mountains are all garden escapes. Yes - cut them down...
Not so droopy David ;) Be fair now - you can't get a more upstanding rose than this. The photo shows the top of Mayor of Casterbridge which...
Rosa Mundi is my favourite rose at the moment. She's at her best now and just about to go over. That will be that then for another year. No...
Any poison you use on the roots will go into the soil and do more damage to anything else you may want to grow. If you cut them right back to...
There was once a fashion for chamomile seats or couches. The idea was that you grew it as an aromatic place to sit when stroling in your garden....
Can anyone identify this rambler? It scrambles through the apple trees and has only come into bloom this week. Not sure if the photos show it...
I have just finished Richard Mabey's "Nature Cure". Wonderful book! [img] He is a well known nature writer, but suffered a shattering nervous...
The highest risk to bees is when roses are in bloom. At any time, you will also be killing ladybirds and lacewings which eat greenfly. Blue tits...
Separate names with a comma.
