Growing our own fruit & veg peat-free in a community allotment.Doing our bit for pollinators with bits of rewilding & enhancing biodiversity as much as we can.
Peat-Free Partnership is urging the government to ban peat sales. Yes PLEASE. After an initial flurry of interest, it’s dreadful to see peat slipping back to garden centres https://t.co/7iubvb2EfF
A novel pesticide has lethal consequences for an important pollinator. 100%mortality of mason bees. Thx @BristolUni for important research. https://t.co/gCM2CHGSMh
It’s like Christmas! Thx @OctopusEnergy for providing #freeelectricity from #RenewableEnergy for those with no solar panels! Cooked 6 meals in different ovens; tumble dryer used 1st time ever, house warmed ready 4 cold snap, car charged hair dried. How was yours @littlegreentip1
My aconites are stunning and the Tree Bumblebees love them. Aconite’s alkaloids are highly toxic so how do bumblebees survive? Interesting info here!
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Shiny brown conkers emerging from their spiny green cases. Fewer this year with most leaves attacked by leaf miners (top left) I collect, crush & store them (lower right). They contain saponins so make a good natural detergent #fruits#WildflowerHour
Autumn #Fruits are not very plentiful yet so it’s taken 3 days to collect these in Lymington. Black bryony, bramble, rosa rugosa, spindle, hawthorn, blackthorn, guelder rose #WildflowerHour
@hill_marian So… I think I have found the designer of these displayed at a lovely event in Bristol on June 2 this year? I thought they were simply beautiful. Where did St Joseph’s come into this because there are some slightly different variants.
I am delighted how many slow worms are living under the dustbin lid in our tiny city centre garden! I have heard that the name for a group of slow worms is a gloss… so look at our glossy huddle! So pleased that there are enough invertebrates to keep them fed and thriving.
@hill_marian I have never seen so many slow worms! I’ve no idea what the size of our population is on the allotment, but we never see so many together. Congratulations.
It’s gone brown. Even The Solent is brown. Nothing shrieks out that summer’s over more than a walk on Pennington sea wall with its blizzard of brown seed heads of wild carrot, teasel, hemlock & ragwort @wildflower_hour@newforestranger Taken just as our 24+ hours of rain sets in