My favourite genus of dry gardening plants is eryngium. I grow Eryngium planum 'Blaukappe', zabelii 'Big Blue', zabelii 'Neptune's Gold', alpinum...
Wishing you a wonderful day, @Sian in Belgium. :):Wino:Nick
Loads of ladybird larvae and ladybirds in my garden this year, more than ever!Nick
Congratulations John and the runners-up! :)Nick
Don't think one can really compare a bodnantense to an opulus @Jocko, they flower at completely different times of the year. :dunno: Anyway, the...
Ah, so you used to have Yorkshire Tea. :rolleyespink:Nick
That's how I see it, and I also make a distinction between necessary and unnecessary noise. I don't generally mind animal noises because my brain...
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@Selleri This is my bee hotel, has done OK for something bought a few years ago for £2, really. :) It hosts Mason and Leaf-cutter bees. Flawed, in...
Wow, 6 bumblebees on that one already and it's not even in full flower, that's impressive! :blue thumb:Nick
@pete Well, it's all a question of social context, isn't it? I don't mind it at the pub with my male pals and it's common with manual labourers,...
I must say, the older I get the less I like hearing swearing in public, especially if it's used extremely frequently. It loses any expressive...
Interesting, have never seen them compared to the corded ones before. I think that cord would seriously start to get on my nerves after a while,...
Couldn't quite understand what the point of them was at first, but now I get it if you have hundreds of cuts to make or weak/problem hands!Nick
This is my 6th year gardening with butterflies and other pollinators in mind and has been the lowest in terms of both butterfly numbers and...
Not sinister at all, simply an Ichneumon wasp with a short ovipositor. :) Personally I find them beautiful and fascinating, Jasmine!Hard to tell...
Your second paragraph literally negates what you claim in your first one, @Fat Controller. :biggrin:"It's important that people can express...
Pretty much impossible to identify from such angles for me! Definitely not a Green-veined White as the veining is not pronounced.Nick
That's odd, why not? I get mine delivered by Pharmacy2U and their website says their service costs the NHS less than the average high street...
@pete I just put your photo into Plantnet and it agrees with me, but it's only 51.7% sure it agrees with me! :biggrin:Nick
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