Breaking Through, Travelling On

gallygirl

Karmacat wrote: »

And my scabious lives! And prospers, just! :j:j:j It's hard to describe quite how much I love scabious. I'm very happy

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I too was very happy when I spotted a bit of green on a geranium I thought was dead :T. Turned out to be a caterpillar :rotfl:.

Karmacat

You do have a way with words :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Check out some of these: http://www.sussex-butterflies.org.uk/conservation/allotments/

Watty1

love the link.
Planning a bit of a meadow here - have someone from a conservation project coming next week. Expect ramblings ....

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Watty1 wrote: »

love the link.
Planning a bit of a meadow here - have someone from a conservation project coming next week. Expect ramblings ....

Not sure what sort of a meadow you're planning or its proximity to neighbours but just thought I'd mention what happened to us when our nearest neighbour ( a fair distance away down the lane) planted a wildflower meadow a few years ago. It looked wonderful the first summer, a flowery carpet and a riot of colours, but once the plants seeded it was like a mini snow storm of gossamer-like seeds floating our way for weeks. We're not tidy gardeners at all:o, a lot of our garden is left wild for the local wildlife (it's very rural, we have fields and a copse on 2 sides) but all those dandelions and other unwanted plants which took root and crowded out what few flowers we have are a nightmare every year.

Karmacat

Oh dear! These things can get tricky, can't they .... my mum tried a wildflower garden in her back garden - which is the size of a pleasant little courtyard garden, smack bang in a suburb. Utterly crazy! Watty, yours sounds completely appropriate if you have a conservation person coming out - maybe they can give you feedback on CBC's issue too.

I do watch out for which plants are helpful to butterflies - I let a big clump of ragwort grow, for instance. It's poisonous to horses, but this is my back garden, and I guarantee it never sees horses but it does see these huge caterpillars all over the ragwort - thats all the caterpillars eat! So I try to do my bit

The to-do list won't get much of a workout today - 3 hours client work, so the most I'll do is a bit of editing of the new book edition and some gardening. That's it! Boring - halfway through week 8 though, so thats something.

xxx

Watty1

carbootcrazy wrote: »

Not sure what sort of a meadow you're planning or its proximity to neighbours but just thought I'd mention what happened to us when our nearest neighbour ( a fair distance away down the lane) planted a wildflower meadow a few years ago. It looked wonderful the first summer, a flowery carpet and a riot of colours, but once the plants seeded it was like a mini snow storm of gossamer-like seeds floating our way for weeks. We're not tidy gardeners at all:o, a lot of our garden is left wild for the local wildlife (it's very rural, we have fields and a copse on 2 sides) but all those dandelions and other unwanted plants which took root and crowded out what few flowers we have are a nightmare every year.

great point CBC. I really don't mind annoying the neighbours aka Mr and Mrs Laurel Hedges but don't want it in my garden! thank you very much. It will be more about a meadow for grazing rather than wild flower - so the horses can eat it too.

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Watty1 wrote: »

great point CBC. I really don't mind annoying the neighbours aka Mr and Mrs Laurel Hedges but don't want it in my garden! thank you very much. It will be more about a meadow for grazing rather than wild flower - so the horses can eat it too.

Sounds lovely, Watty:T. Good luck with it:beer:

edinburgher

We have a wildflower meadow near us - paradise when it's in flower

Karmacat

:smileyhea wildflowers



In other news: my week is two thirds finished, slightly ahead of schedule :beer: with the really tricky bits done.


YouGov don't love me any more :rotfl:


I have nearly £10 of Nectar points :eek: I might actually try to get to Sainsbo on Saturday so I can spend some - I don't trust them not to go bust before I can get my paws on the goods


I'm still working on clearing the decks to become a multi-millionaire. I was going to write billionaire, but I'm not greedy

beanielou

You Gov is just soooo boring.