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new wild favourite: poached egg plant!
The big guy has a new favourite wildflower: the poached egg plant. The name says it all. It’s also known as Meadow foam, of the Limnanthaceae family, and is originally native of California. They are low-growing annuals with pinnately divided leaves … Continue reading
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cold snaps & doing things out of season
The weather report warned on Easter Sunday of a big dip in temperatures, with days going from low 20s to 10 degrees Celcius. Brrrrr! We’d been lured into false confidence that spring was truly with us, and yesterday it was … Continue reading
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pond life with Percival
Earlier this week we spotted our palmate newt, who’d taken it upon himself to shimmy up the plastic lining of the pond to catch some sun. Percival seems to have grown and is now about 3 inches long, with a … Continue reading
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seeds a sprouting, birds a chirping…
Happy days indeed – despite the quiet covid apocalypse most of us are living through as if through a dream… The Easter weekend was a scorcher and the days felt more like June than early April, with temperatures in … Continue reading
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awesome artichoke!
Artichoke are awesome! But boy are they huge! If you have the space and want to plant some globe artichoke of your own, try to remember that the tiny little slip you purchase at the garden centre will grow to … Continue reading
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gooseberry palace – completed
Yesterday we did a shorter session at the allotment. The great Malink measured the communal water line, topped up our water reserves and a then helped me install the gooseberry into its new palace. The gooseberry palace, now with two … Continue reading
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getting buzzy ’bout bees too
We’ve been getting pretty buzzy ’bout bees too! The super-dude picked up a postcard that identifies the ‘Bees of Kew’. Using this (and the internet) we tried to identify some of the various bees we’ve been spotting up at the … Continue reading
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the sex lives of butterflies.. continued
So I kept at it. Curious. In other days I might have skipped over the passing query and simply let it drop into that pile of things you wonder about but never quite check up on. But these strange coronavirus … Continue reading
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the sex lives of butterflies…
All the information about butterflies is full of marvels – the many stages of being an egg to chrysalis.. larvae and pupae… to finally emerge as a butterfly. Wow! Really astonishing set of physical transformations. But the info pages all … Continue reading
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Orange Tip Butterfly
We spotted this little beauty this morning – hanging around H’s plot near the damask, supping on the nectar in vinca flowers. White wings with yellow tips – darker at the ends and points marked with lighter dots. Blackish grey … Continue reading
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Philosophising... 