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IN OUR GARDENS 2025

We have a sort of vine appear to if I can get it on here I will try. The leaves are about 3 inches long heart shaped but more like a tongue. I wonder if some of them come from the supposed seeding free bird seeds. As we get corn growing too.
 
devonjim said:
My ,we had some rain last night down here in South West, garden pond went from about a foot below it's normal level to full to brim. Refilling aided by the water diverted from the downpipe on a conservatory using a device meant for water butts but adapted with a 7m length of plastic corrugated tube that routes the water into the pond.
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A quote from April 16th.'25. Pond level up at this level again today for the first time since April. Shows what a prolonged spell of dry weather we have enjoyed.
 
devonjim said:
A quote from April 16th.'25. Pond level up at this level again today for the first time since April. Shows what a prolonged spell of dry weather we have enjoyed.
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Friend has given me his parents' old bird bath. I was touched, he is moving to Brum soon to a flat. It has a faded inscription, in the sun or in the rain wherever you are you are closer to God in the garden. Or something like that. A robin used the old bird bath today in the pouring rain. He has started coming in the garage where I keep the food. I don;t know if he is the one from last year or a new one. He is very tame when food is concerned.
 
Richard Dye said:
We will cut until the end of October or early November then have a final clean up mid November. The good news is that we have an irrigation system, the bad news is that we have an irrigation system :)!
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Ours is still baldy. We got another new flower it looks like a dandelion but the leaves are long and plain.
 
pjmburns said:
Could be a hawkbit. There is a yellow one often confused with dandelion but I can't remember what the leaves are like.
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Will look at the leaves closely. It isn't Cats Ear. Our lilac tree was split in the storm today. I hope no one else had a rough time. Then a second upright came down I have tied up a 3rd with old hanging basket chains. It was a bout 10 feet high but it's now 8. We have what my partner's mum called eglantine which has shot up over it that might be the cause. I thought that was a dog rose?. It has small white flowers, there is a pink one even bigger that has droopy bigger pink petals. Might be an old-fashioned rose. I tied up the cone flowers and honeysuckle I used our grandson's helium balloon string. .Waste not want not, He left it for us to deflate. Moved the Dill or whatever it is, it is getting too big, growing over the window in height and it has blown over & uprooted twice, but there is more coming up. I have seen it in other peoples' gardens round here.
 
my son cut the grass yesterday...a job he hates (much prefers working on his bikes) :D so hope its the last one of the year...raining heavily again here now so he would not have been able to do it today

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Blackbirds appear to disappear in August because they are hiding to moult, a stressful process of replacing worn-out feathers, which leaves them vulnerable, with reduced energy and less ability to fly. This molting period, lasting several weeks, makes them spend more time in dense vegetation, away from open spaces like lawns and feeders. Additionally, the abundance of natural foods like berries and seeds in late summer makes them less interested in garden feeders, so they move into the wider countryside to forage
most birds have flown south across the autumn sky and the geese are coming:D
 
mw0njm. said:
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Blackbirds appear to disappear in August because they are hiding to moult, a stressful process of replacing worn-out feathers, which leaves them vulnerable, with reduced energy and less ability to fly. This molting period, lasting several weeks, makes them spend more time in dense vegetation, away from open spaces like lawns and feeders. Additionally, the abundance of natural foods like berries and seeds in late summer makes them less interested in garden feeders, so they move into the wider countryside to forage
most birds have flown south across the autumn sky and the geese are coming:D
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That’s interesting Pete. I did notice out local blackbird looking a bit ragged so he must be in the moulting season then
 
mw0njm. said:
i did wonder where they went as a rule there is 1or 2 jumping about.
no bumble bees this year it is sad not to see them about
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Very few bees here but the butterflies had a late splurge hardly any flies, plenty of spiders all coming in and a slug keeps coming in and I keep putting him out. Very few ladybirds. No May one bugs. We bought more insect friendly plants too. Noticed more gulls more fast food outlets but the cats keep the rats and mice away. More foxes. No jay this year less song birds.
 
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