LindaMae's Back garden
Garden Type: Backyard |
Sun: Partial Sun |
Soil: Clay
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24
Oct
2009
honey fungus!
Very Unhappy
Back garden
We have honey fungus! Apparently it’s quite common for SE England. When I read the information about how to detect it, it all starts to fall into place – trees and woody shrubs dying off over the space of several years. Particularly prone are plum and apple trees, forsythia, currant b...
17°C / 63°F
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22
Jun
2009
a froggy visitor
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Full of potential - renamed Water garden and Back garden
We spied a visiting frog the other day. He was much bigger and beefier than our usual little friend, darker in colour too, and I’m assuming he was the one I saw some while ago under the fruit trees because after a while he stopped his bathing, climbed out and took a number of huge leaps bac...
Sunny
15°C / 59°F
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17
Jun
2009
first stag beetle of the year
Back garden
…first sighting of a stag beetle this year. I wasn’t here, my other half saw it just in the middle of the grass lumbering along. My journal from last year with pics is here:
http://myfolia.com/journals/21509-stag-beetle-x-2
Sunny
18°C / 64°F
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31
May
2009
wildlife update
Very Happy
Back garden , Thyme , and Full of potential - renamed Water garden
This is ridiculous – we’re a bit like proud parents. The first thing I did when I got home from work was go and look for the frog! … anyway he is living under the overhang of flat stone just near the entrance to the pond and my other half managed to entice him out by offering hi...
Sunny
17°C / 63°F
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30
May
2009
infested..
Nasturtium and Back garden
..with black fly – masses of them. This is what happened the last time – several years ago now – that I tried planting nasturtiums. I saw some last year though in a garden a few streets away and thought how nice they looked so I tried again. I’ve just spent a while painsta...
26°C / 79°F
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15
May
2009
gone
Erythronium Pagoda Dying and Back garden
… I had been thinking about planting some of these for at least a year before I got them, which is unusual in ways, I’m not that much of a planner. And now I see why not. Despite my best efforts (nematodes, slug pellets, night time patrols and a lot of pointless shouting) all three p...
Cloudy
15°C / 59°F
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05
May
2009
flowers
Aquilegia Flowering and Back garden
15°C / 59°F