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  1. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    A builder got me some old ones they are the blue type.
  2. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    We have what I think is hyssop hyssop? It appeared in a rose's pot about 5 years ago. It's pink small and trailing. Slight smell. And what I thought was cosmos that won't flower my partner says is dill, appeared. That smells nice.
  3. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    Beautiful garden I have a thing about old coping stones
  4. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    We usually get some left but not this year. Everything is topsy turvy. But we did get some new flowers appear. I looked one up. Hyssop. I bought a verbena and a yarrow not realising that yarrow is a herb too. We had borage this year I am told its like porridge not boar ridge?
  5. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    They have eaten and in the process of eating all our climbing nasturtiums but I do like butterflies.
  6. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    We had nuthatches 2 years ago they are the only bird who runs down the tree trunk maybe that will help. My Brummie cousins had a green and pink pigeon, we looked it up it was from India.
  7. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    We get holly blues , very small.
  8. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    I heard of a green veined white, been reading about white and cream moths too and some have like dangly bits other wings. When I water in the evening I disturb them and butterflies.
  9. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    Friend has a garden like yours, she boards dogs, so she washes it down but the garden is beautiful with trees and flowering shrubs a lily pond with frogs and a little rivulet that wanders round the perimeter with little bridges.
  10. I Am Nico

    BAB,when are you too old to be 'Bab'

    I remember a a line in a song on the radio, "Hey Bab areee bab, said the little wee bab, " when I was little. Was it about the Three Bears?
  11. I Am Nico

    BAB,when are you too old to be 'Bab'

    My Aston friend always calls me Bab I call her mo Wench which she thinks is hilarious. . Two others not Brummies call me Me Babby. a Coventry Irish lad always says bab. My stepdaughter's ex a Coventry kid called her Pab. I get called, Babe. I used to be Boo Boo to a Centenarian French/Armenian...
  12. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    Gotcha, I have brain fog from travelling. What's on the table Mable? The heat has brought out our butterflies. Lots of large whites and some tiny brown orange ones I will have to identify. Pigeons making love on fence I could have touched them they were oblivious to me. They are getting too...
  13. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    I know and a good pianist and singer but why did you put her name?
  14. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    Why Ena Sharples/? Mum used to say I am putting my Ena Sharples on, her hair net.
  15. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    I think my new flowers might be cosmos but they are not wild are they?
  16. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    My sister in Spain rescues animals. They do understand they wont come out. Last year in France it was so hot our friend's cat was sick, friend had a small new build bungalow it was like an oven. The floors are tiled and she was trying to cool her with ice packs.
  17. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    A speckled wood always lands on the white plastic ancient garden chair by our kitchen door. My mum always sat there. I like to think it's her. I was told butterflies are very spiritual I know it sound far fetched but......I had a colleague John -Paul who passed away in his twenties. Our boss...
  18. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    Maybe rosebay willow herb will grow there. It's under a laurel and the apple tree. And I got it off the ,internet and chives, just wary eating that now. And visiting cat has sprayed on it. Where it looks like powdered cement is under the window. Cats are having a field day in there.
  19. I Am Nico

    IN OUR GARDENS 2025

    We had some work done and there is tuns of silicone render in lumps chipping size and like sand in the earth. The flowers are coming back through . There are patches of it on the earth and grass. I tried watering it, I have raked it. Have you any ideas please? It says it's not harmful to animals.
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