Foxgloves again?? 3

Beautiful.

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!

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!

They really are such amazing insects!

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

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!

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?..:((

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!

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

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((

Oh no, don't they take the biscuit!

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(

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.

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