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Garden butterflies 2025
Garden butterflies 2025

Male common blue on bird’s foot trefoil

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entering the hungry skies…
entering the hungry skies…
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The most profound of pleasures…
The most profound of pleasures…

Carrots Early Nantes 150g

Beetroot Golden Globe 400g

Beetroot Boltardy 150g

Spring onions White Lisbon 50g

Calabrese Marathon (Broccoli) 700g

Broad Beans Aquadulce podded 80g

Kohl Rabi 500g

Courgette Atena polka 50g

Courgette Defender 50g

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Birds.

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Support your local sparrow..
Support your local sparrow..
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‘Angry birds..’!
‘Angry birds..’!

Juvenile tawny owls May 2021

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Bossing it …
Bossing it …

Juvenile robin in moult ..

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Veggies.

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The most profound of pleasures…
The most profound of pleasures…

Carrots Early Nantes 150g

Beetroot Golden Globe 400g

Beetroot Boltardy 150g

Spring onions White Lisbon 50g

Calabrese Marathon (Broccoli) 700g

Broad Beans Aquadulce podded 80g

Kohl Rabi 500g

Courgette Atena polka 50g

Courgette Defender 50g

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Beanz meanz health?
Beanz meanz health?
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Looking backwards to go forwards ..
Looking backwards to go forwards ..

Broad (Fava) bean ‘Aquadulce’

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Eat Yourself Healthy.

Mammals.

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Features in trees….
Features in trees….
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months and years ..
months and years ..
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Circling crazily ..

Holy moley. Warm dark night. Windows & doors open. Suddenly a large bat circling crazily at speed in the lounge.

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Invertebrates.

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entering the hungry skies…
entering the hungry skies…
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the soundtrack of Sherwood..
the soundtrack of Sherwood..

Those Victorians knew how to name a moth ..

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Dusk in June
Dusk in June

Burnished Brass moth..

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Herpetofauna.

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At last, frog spawn …
At last, frog spawn …

A tangle of mating frogs

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I become a boar …
I become a boar …
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When a day can’t get any better..
When a day can’t get any better..

A common lizard emerges from under the settee and sets off at speed across the carpet. 

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Meadow.

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welcome rain..
welcome rain..

Today the orchard meadow was strimmed and the hay mounded.

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Olympic inspiration…!
Olympic inspiration…!

Staying at Center Parcs, village Nature, Paris as a base from which we’d visit the Olympics.

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Scabious
Scabious

Field scabious now flowering in the meadow.

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Seeds.

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Wildflower seed sowing…
Wildflower seed sowing…

A good drop of rain forecast. Warm weather. Optimal for casting wildflower seeds.

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The memory maple..
The memory maple..

Field maple (acer campestre) is a pretty little native tree. One of my favourites. And I’ve always nurtured little native trees and shrubs wherever I can find them…

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Mullered..
Mullered..

I’m fascinated by yellow rattle.

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Compost.

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Poignant
Poignant

The cycle of the season turns and there is the satisfaction that all that time composting grass and weeds and cardboard and paper and kitchen waste has been productive.

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Luxurious
Luxurious

Several days of morning frost. Despite the frost, moles are active. Many molehills and moles’ surface tunnels.

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Soil conditioner extraordinaire!
Soil conditioner extraordinaire!

Vital in the organic no-dig garden. Browns & greens mixed. Layered up and turned once.

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Ponds.

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Four-spotted
Four-spotted

Newcomers to George’s pond - four-spotted chasers

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Orchard pond
Orchard pond

Ponds bring great richness to gardens. Thousands of ponds have been lost due to the 'improvement' of agricultural land - to the great detriment of wildlife.

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Frost
Frost

Waxwings and George’s Pond in the frost…

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In Bloom.

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golden globes ..
golden globes ..

Aconite

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Fleabane
Fleabane

Small copper on Mexican fleabane

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Water mint..
Water mint..

Water mint (mentha aquatica) is now playing a blinder around the pond.

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Climate Change.

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Have we already lost the war..?
Have we already lost the war..?

Hubert Reeves has it. ‘Man is at war with Nature. And if he wins he loses’.

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Realising a vision for building biomass and recovering nature…
Realising a vision for building biomass and recovering nature…

I’ve got this vision that calls to mind the memory of the massive Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station.

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Collision..
Collision..

The decision of the new government to remove the ban on the construction of land-based wind turbines is to be welcomed.

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