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Foxgloves again?? 3

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Foxgloves again??  3

Here they are with Monkshood and Sheila's lovely Salvia Cerro potosi.



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Beautiful.

3 Jun, 2024

 

I grew some from seed a couple of years ago and white ones have popped all through. It must be a good year for them!

3 Jun, 2024

 

Ooh lovely Ange, they're very beautiful especially in a dull corner where they shine out.

The bees absolutely love them Shirley, sheltering inside the flowers too when it's raining!

3 Jun, 2024

 

They really are such amazing insects!

4 Jun, 2024

 

They are, and they need all the help they can get..

4 Jun, 2024

 

That is so true Janey ... I have just watched some Bees landing on Welsh Poppies, Foxgloves, Teucrium and Geums so they have had their lunch in my garden today!

4 Jun, 2024

 

Lovely! Cool and wet here Shirley, so no watching bees for me today. On the radio the Asian Hornet is on the rise, a killer of bees, so we'll have to watch out for those in the summer. There's always something isn't there?..:((

4 Jun, 2024

 

I heard that too and today on the village FB page somebody posted a photo of a fearsome looking insect. It has been identified as a Timber Wasp or Giant Horn Tail, harmless but sounds like a Lancaster bomber!

4 Jun, 2024

 

Good grief Shirley, just what the pigeons could do with to chase them off!

7 Jun, 2024

 

Yes indeed Janey, they are an absolute nuisance in my garden. I just carefully spread a bag of chipped bark around, made sure to leave the stepping stones uncovered and the pesky birds have covered them up ... :o((

7 Jun, 2024

 

Oh no, don't they take the biscuit!

8 Jun, 2024

 

Janey, you have put that more politely than I would have ... having swept the bark away at 9am they had messed it all up within an hour ... :o(

9 Jun, 2024

 

They are a damn nuisance Shirley, I do wish they could be culled.
What I do wish is that their diet could be tailored to include slugs and snails. At one time they would be out in the fields pecking at wheat or busy after harvest cleaning the fields. Now, they've had a taste of garden plants which are more tasty in the spring and here they stay and multiply.

9 Jun, 2024

 

That's exactly it, Janey, I now even hear them cooing down the chimney when they're up on the cowling, grrr!

12 Jun, 2024



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