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Tag: Rosemary beetle

Wordless Wednesday

March 15, 20176 Comments

Those dratted beautiful rosemary beetles (Chrysolina americana)

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Might be parky today, but the cherry plums haven't noticed... #springsigns

Misty reflections on the river this afternoon...

Lovely to open my January copy of Gardeners' World Magazine and see the first of my nature series, starting with making fat cakes to attract birds to the garden. Not long now until the Big Garden Birdwatch...

Misty over the reedbeds this morning & the song thrushes giving it some welly.

Nightfall over the reedbeds, rejoicing in a bit of solitary time, just the crows keeping me company & an alder watching my back. Moonlight pooling on the boardwalk as I set off home.

My Guardian Country Diary today explores the alder carr - a place that is dear to me & where I go for restoration, creativity & simply to breathe. (link in bio)

On fire #nofilter

Mellow, luxurious Dahlia Cafe au Lait this evening.

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Guardian Country Diary

Country diary: blackthorn winter has begun to loosen its grip April 21, 2021
Wolsingham, County Durham: Pearly buds have opened, smothering blackthorn twigs in a froth of blossom. Spring’s brief intermission is overIn The Generation Game, a popular 1970s TV show, winning contestants watched desirable prizes pass by on a conveyor belt, but afterwards only took home those they could remember in 45 seconds. Recalling the pageant of spri […]
Phil Gates

Nature Notes

Nature Notes March 14, 2021
Wild Crocuses and Stubble Turnips. Blue skies flick a switch for spring. Bats and brimstone butterflies break hibernation, midges rise and fall in columns, blackbirds grow territorial and sparrows toy with (and squabble over) nesting material. The mud crusts and dries in ridges and tiny, young nettle and goosegrass leaves make a green flush under … Continue […]
nicolawriting

Landlines: Nature Writing

Where is the Wild? Nature Writing Workshop with Amy-Jane Beer – by Joanna Dobson March 12, 2021
Last year on our allotment we lost an entire crop of leeks to the allium leaf miner, Phytomyza gymnostoma. I went to the plot in driving rain on a grim December afternoon, and pulled up a few leeks for supper, their oniony tang hitting my nose in bursts as the wind whipped across my face.Continue reading "Where is the Wild? Nature Writing Workshop with […]
Lucy Rowland

Guardian Bird Watch

Birdwatch: Leach’s petrel, a storm-driven visitor wrecked on our shore April 14, 2021
The sooty-black seabird should have been far out in the North Atlantic at this time of yearThe wind had dropped a little, but still made my eyes water, and I was finding it hard to hold my binoculars steady. Gulls strained to stop themselves being blown backwards, while flocks of wigeon hunkered down on the river’s surface.And then we caught sight of it. A s […]
Stephen Moss

Gardens, Weeds and Words

Day 111: hoop petticoat daffodils April 21, 2021
Talk about blowing your own trumpet. There’s not much more to the hoop petticoat daff (Narcissus bulbocodium) than its great long schnoz…
Andrew O'Brien

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