We may not have the most exciting or blooming garden in the world but we do have:
Ladybirds living on the holly (eating aphids)
Blackbirds regularly hopping about, eating the few slugs that ever actually appear, and picking up leaves from the lawn for their nests
Finches, sparrows, and tits (haha) chattering to each other in crowds on the one small tree
Many different kinds of visiting bee and wasp
And this is relatively normal for a Scottish garden so it's not just us and even if we could do better by our wildlife, it still makes me happy to know they're there
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The hawthorn bloom is in full swing and the smell is intoxicating
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Kent's beautiful Rural B Roads...AONB by Adam Swaine
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Stunning hedgerows & B Roads in Kent on sunday road trip..
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Holly growing new leaves through the early spring blossom
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Rake Forage 2
Mentioned in a foraging book acquired at Christmasi, we bought an inexpensive berry picker for the 2023 harvest. On the cusp of a heatwave the previous year, this time we had to wait for respite from incessant rain. Towards Crow Nest, bees flitted between large marguerites and pesky round beech nuts hampered the climb through the west end of the wood.
To avoid muddy fields, we kept to New…
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Plant combination
Green grass paired with pruned shrubs, combined with a few groups of flowers, is visually pleasing.
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Ma lath,
I miss you, I want you, I’m going mad without you. For all the ills of this world, of which there are many, you remain a constant star to remind me that not all is lost.
Enclosed is a flower that fills the hedgerows and forests here in the Marches. I hope it arrives safely. I never see them grow so abundantly in the south, and I wish you were here in person so I could tuck the blooms into your armour like I usually do.
I remain the faithful heart of your beloved, ma sal shiral. Ever yours. Ever mine. Ever ours.
Your Tomlen
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