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IN OUR GARDENS 2026

Lemonella said:
Wow that was lucky! Does it mean something, I wonder? What type was it? There have been a lot of tiny blue ones, but not the usual big ones such as tortoiseshell, peacock, etc.
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I think it was a peacock but I didn’t want to disturb it by turning my head to look at it.
I’ve always thought butterflies to be symbolic.
The Christmas following the year my Mom passed away my son bought me a charm for my bracelet engraved Mom. It was a lovely gesture and we said how much we all missed her. Just after that I went in the dining room and I couldn’t believe my eyes, there was a butterfly on the windowsill….in December…
I hoped it was mom wishing us Happy Christmas!
 
Lemonella said:
We had one a few years ago, found holes which we filled and put citronella around, as they hate that. They are not nice to have in your garden but I suppose the bird feed attracts them. We always feed the birds.
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Lemonella I’ll do anything to avoid killing creatures but we had to resort to poison because like you we feed the birds, we back onto fields and it caused us a huge problem. I hated doing it because they’re just trying to survive like any other creature, but they go to such extremes. Mind you the squirrels are getting as bad!!
 
We do get a couple of gulls but not very often. We know someone that works for a Waste company, the gulls are real pests there but I suppose you can understand it.
 
When we moved in here on 2017 we used to have very small, minute in fact frogs. come into the back garden . Then I noticed after the Lavender had flowered and I was tidying it up , there was a substantial size Frog he/she visited a couple of times more but I have#nt seen either for a couple of years
 
I dismantled a pergola we used to have just outside the back door . oone of the posts the kept it up fell down rotten at the base. I cut the base of made good and added a 3 part makeshift bracket for the feeders. The feeders are filled with sunflower hearts , another with peanuts and the third normal bird seed , since its been up my son has videoed two woodpecjer a green finch goldfinches blue tits and the usual criminals sparrows and starlings etc / So it proves if you feed them they'll come
 
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