Pines Corner

Notes from our wilder garden, for native plants and creatures - (and with a few Scots Pines). Now mainly on Instagram @pinescorner. Posts by Steve & Jane.

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Hello #gardenshour! Anyone else #rewilding a garden with native plants and habitats? Ours has the feel of a natural woodland glade with 50 shades of green and a sprinkle of colour: pics include buttercups, ragged robin, red campion, logpile ferns, & dog rose. ~J #wildlifegarden

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@rlewington2 @MatthewOates76 Rare find @MathewOates76 - sometimes to found at Knepp. Good to see Purple Emperors as well, always a joy.

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@susanjsimmonds @HantsIWWildlife Nice pic Susan, only seen this in the ‘bat cave’ at Privett.

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@HantsIWWildlife We had one in the garden today too!

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Garden folk - are you still seeing swifts in the south? @GardensHour

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Birding folk - have swifts all left our shores now ? Or are some still on the lookout for next year’s nest site? A swift flew over last week (6m from south coast) but prob more focused on getting to Africa than the lure of our call player and next summer? ~ J 5th Aug

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Birding folk - have swifts all left our shores now ? Or are some still on the lookout for next year’s nest site? A swift flew over last week (6m from south coast) but prob more focused on getting to Africa than the lure of our call player and next summer? ~ J 5th Aug

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Common Sorrel (Rumex acetosa) gives height and variety in the #gardenmeadow and provides food for caterpillars of the Forester moth and Small Copper butterfly - so saving seeds to scatter where there’s gaps for more #FlowersOnFriday next year🤞. #Wildlifegarden ~ J

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Two of the Five ragwort plants in our #wildlifegarden (up from 1 last year) - but still no cinnabar moth caterpillars!? 🤷‍♀️ ~ J #WildWebsWednesday

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@susanjsimmonds @UC_Sparsholt Congratulations Susan!

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@Debbie_Tann @isabella_tree @CharlieBurrell_ We saw it too (in Winchester) - agreed it’s a positive, encouraging and engaging film. Very well done. ~ J

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@emilyalegge @QUBelfast Great news! Do you take bookings?! (There’s a slot at the Hampshire WGClub zoom any time! )

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This week’s #wildflowerhour challenge was to find #stinkyplants - so our native Stinking Iris (Iris Foetidissima or gladdon) seems an ideal candidate. Does well in our wilder #wildlifegarden, though last year’s berries haven’t been taken yet 🤔 ~ J

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Wild flowers against the evening sun in our #wildlifegarden - the ever cheerful Ox-eye daisies.
#wildflowerhour @wildflower_hour ~ J

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@TheGreenJeanie @georgecmcgavin This is better explanation https://t.co/7qqDT7brDk

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@TheGreenJeanie @georgecmcgavin They’ve merged with a nature focused group to cover both, it seems from this https://t.co/GfhnnuiEg5

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First sighting of a thick-legged flower beetle (aka swollen-thighed beetle ) in our #wildlifegarden , doing the rounds of our meadow flowers and seeing off a bee with a prior claim on the buttercup! #gardenshour ~ J

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The #wildlifegarden is full of distractions:- a #hoverflylagoon just had to be made, while trimming a way through the flowering lawn after #didntgetaroundtomowApril was abandoned 🤷‍♀️😉! ~ J @GardensHour #gardenshour

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@Debbie_Tann @HantsIWWildlife Glad you enjoyed the day! Congratulations again!

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Spot the invertebrate?! I went looking for a #wildwebswednesday pic but was struck more by the flower forms of these native trees in our #wildlifegarden. I guess the inverts (except 1) were lurking in the leaves! Here’s Rowan, Wayfarer tree, Guelder rose and Hawthorn. ~ J

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A hoverfly on Hawthorn - don’t know which one, just pleased the #wildlifegarden is doing its job. A late #wildflowerhour #treeflowers post - but just in time for #wildwebswednesday! ~ J