Planted sweetpeas got these ?

just learned something new , Vetch , we are calling them wild sweep pea ....

 

Mainly Vicia & Lathyrus in Latin. I once had an interesting walk with a friend of a friend who worked for the Italian forrestry, neither of us spoke much of each others language, but at least we could name the trees The latin names were almost the same as the modern Italian.

 

The sweetpea seeds came from a poundland pack, and they were mostly very small, with a couple of the larger black ball type seeds in the packet

Sheal the Budleiha was a bush in the morning, after doing some work I sat down for a rest, and noticed two sparrows with beaks stuffed to the gunwales with green leaf,
a couple of minutes later, they returned with five oppo's alighted on my budleiha and stripped it bear in seconds
I did not even try to chase them as I was amazed watching them strip it like a harvesting machine :-)

Thanks for the id's folks

Jack McH

 

Sounds like contaminated seed Jack, hope they don't do that with edibles too, could end up killing someone.

The Budleija will respond well to being stripped, once the nest building is over

 

Sparrows are a blasted nuisance, they are so destructive. My neighbour is feeding about three dozen of them and I'm not amused, as I'm still fighting to stop them nesting underneath my rood tiles.

 

Didn't know you were a Catholic Church going girl Sheal.

 

Fingers on keyboard ahead of brain again Ziggy.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rood_screen

 

Interesting reading Ziggy. History and build of churches I like, but you're not likely to find me praying in them.

 

You'll probably have seen the longest one in England at Dunster then. It's been about 30 years since I was in that church.

 

Never been in Dunster church Scrunge, will have a look next time

Be Rood not to.

 

Well worth it, it's the longest rood thing I've ever seen


But getting back to dodgy sweet pea seeds - Jack please complain to Poundland about them http://www.poundland.co.uk/enquiry/customer-enquiry/

 

Not as much as a Rood to Nowhere, more like a Highway to Heaven.