Flower Power Lymo

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.

[Flower Power Lymo @LymWild]

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

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@littlegreentip1 @OctopusEnergy Bad luck!

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Look at these 100% allotment veggies cooking with #freeelectricity during #OctopusHour @OctopusEnergy Just a fraction of the cooking carried out! See more below👇@littlegreentip1

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@littlegreentip1 @OctopusEnergy Did you not manage it this time?

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A novel pesticide has lethal consequences for an important pollinator. 100%mortality of mason bees. Thx @BristolUni for important research. https://t.co/gCM2CHGSMh

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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

[Flower Power Lymo @LymWild]

My aconites are stunning and the Tree Bumblebees love them. Aconite’s alkaloids are highly toxic so how do bumblebees survive? Interesting info here!
#GardensHour
https://t.co/V0oPDQKgvN

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@makinggardens Look at this absolute cracker

[Lussas @Lussas]

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

[Flower Power Lymo @LymWild]

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

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On a dull Saturday after about 48 hours of rain, these are looking perky: Salvia, Sunflower, Cornflower, Cosmos, Zinnia, Nasturtium #SixonSaturday

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@littlegreentip1 Second day of non-stop rain.

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@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.

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Look @Rhizowen!

[Marian Hill @hill_marian]

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.

[Flower Power Lymo @LymWild]

@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.

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@Matt_Mark2 And it wasn’t even the Friday episode!

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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

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Here you are ⁦@Rachael67947693⁩. Gorgeous Zinnia

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@Rachael67947693 Will find one!

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@NewForestFruit @BBCFarmingToday @newforestsnacks Listening now!