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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.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
I had to look him up, I am maybe more Monty Don or Percy Chucker as my uncle called him. Partner can't bear Mr Titchmarsh. She likes a mature lady.Lyn? I shelled the broad beans but we don't know if they are safe to eat as they just appeared. So we have left them for the birdies and beasties.
Very pretty. So is the borage that appeared this year and the broad beans. The no seed bird food keeps seeding with corn. We have some new flowers but I will have to see when they open as to what they might be. Might be musk mallow very feathery leaves. I had to get the magnifying glass out for...
We get goldfinches these past 3 years or so, quite a few don't know why,. no more chaffinches or greenfinches. Old Next door used to have an aviary which attracted wild birds including sparrow hawks. I went for a walk and I noted more than 3/4 of the front gardens are all covered in some shape...
Wonderful. I can remember the naughty playground rhyme, going off topic. Walking in the jungle got the belly ache etc. On topic could hospital radio operators plays what they wanted?