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..for butterflies.  Perhaps they are all in your gardens?  There's a fine line between wild and completely out of control, and I think I may have crossed that line!  It's been too wet to strim the long grass but I will wait until the cormflowers have gone anyway.  The birds are very happy.  The evening light is lovely and I am on a roll with clearing the 'identity clutter' now that I have got some moomentum going. It's proving to be rather ineresting...
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Gwendoline
3/8/2024 12:20:59 pm
The butterflies are not in my garden that's for sure. They pass through in the singles but are scarce. I'm still getting some bees on the cardoons. A few hoverflies on the phlox. But there is not the usual hum of insect life even through the last few, hot days. I've had no hummingbird hawk moths on my soapwort at all.
Freda
6/8/2024 08:40:30 am
I saw three butterflies today, so maybe they are still on their way.
Mary R.
3/8/2024 02:27:26 pm
Love the out-of control … actually don’t think it is yet. And the copper bird water bowl is so lovely.
Freda
6/8/2024 08:41:39 am
It is full of life and I suppose nature is in control.
Gail
4/8/2024 04:17:40 am
From last week in June for the next 4 weeks, “feel like” temps were over 100, every.single.day. I’m use to humidity , but this was unrelenting. I gave up on weed pulling. IOW my garden went from wild to out of control. I’ll take care of it when I clip down the a black Eyed Susans in mid- September.
Freda
6/8/2024 08:44:37 am
Those extremes sound rather exhausting. I have done a little gentle cutting back today but most of it will happen later, and that’s fine.
Karen
4/8/2024 08:09:56 am
Vey few butterflies here in the east of Scotland - buddleia unadorned by them. Greatly reduced numbers of wasps & hoverflies too; although we had a wasps' nest in one nesting box after the sparrows left.
Freda
6/8/2024 08:45:54 am
Just accepting how it is now. All good.
Elizabeth
4/8/2024 08:48:41 pm
I used to have a buddliea at the front door of my York terrace. It went so out of course trolnthatvaneighbourvdubbed it The Orangutan and it was restricting access to the house so it went. In a photograph five years ago I see it simultaneously hosted a red admiral a peacock and a tortoiseshell on trust on just one section. The wild flower planting on our approach to the station has a few buddleias but I have not seen any butterflies on them this year. Experts are blaming the cold and the wet in the breeding season for the rapid decline.
Freda
6/8/2024 08:49:18 am
I can see why you had to get rid of your Buddlia. But there is no shortage of them. They grow out of lots of old buildings! The identity clutter this year is very interesting.
Susan inDorset
4/8/2024 11:16:57 pm
A fair variety of butterflies here, but very very few - nothing like the clouds of them that were here when I arrived, 17 years' ago.
Freda
6/8/2024 08:51:19 am
Partly because of wet weather, I am inclined to leave the garden to its own devices for a bit. Interesting things happening indoors and perhaps the butterflies will still come….
Susan inDorset for MaryB
4/8/2024 11:18:40 pm
I'm hoping that all's progressing well for you, MaryB.
Freda
6/8/2024 08:52:17 am
We are all sending healing thoughts, MaryB.
Anne A
5/8/2024 07:46:33 am
I love the light patterns against the end wall of your shed. It all looks very scandi.
Freda
6/8/2024 08:53:03 am
The colour on the shed is called silver birch which I agree looks very Scandinavian. I love it. Leave a Reply. |
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