What a drag, Dove. Can you encourage a side shoot to take over? Mine are still very small, so no danger from open tops. Mind you - I haven't opened the lid for ages.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Hopefully there’ll be a useful sideshoot @Fairygirl 🤞
Its quite nice out there now ... I’ve got some bathsheets on the line and OH has just cut the front grass. Did I post about the fact that our ‘live and let live’ attitude to ants had lead them to think they’re welcome in our home? Flying ants all over the skirting board and wall in the sitting room yesterday evening ... afraid we had to use some pyrethroid stuff squirted down the crack between the floor and the skirting. Don’t like doing it let alone having it in GW house but we suspect they’re ‘living in the wall’ which will damage it. We’ve put some stuff outside along where the back of the bed and the wall join. We’ve been using the bait stations for three summers but they’ve obviously not been enough. Ive vacuumed bodies up today and no sign of any more ... yet ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Fingers crossed for the toms. Good luck with the ants too. Not something we usually have problems with here - I'm not even sure we get the flying ants at all. They've just announced Franco Zeffirelli's died. Jesus of Nazareth was a 'must watch' in my house.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Fingers crossed for the toms. Good luck with the ants too. Not something we usually have problems with here - I'm not even sure we get the flying ants at all. They've just announced Franco Zeffirelli's died. Jesus of Nazareth was a 'must watch' in my house.
A very talented but rather ‘confused’ man, to put it kindly.
You must get the flying ants @Fairygirl ... they’re the boys ... no boys to ‘go flying’ with the Queen ... no ants. 😉
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That director has done some marvellous work. I remember my daughter, just before she started school so was about four, sitting absolutely glued to that Taylor/Burton Taming of the Shrew.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I didnt word that very well! I meant that 'big eruption' of them Dove. Not something I've ever encountered, or heard anyone mention, but maybe I've just never been in the right place.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@Fairygirl at a previous house, when I had a studio in the garden, one day while I was painting I thought it must be clouding over as it was getting darker ... then I looked at one of the big windows to find it absolutely covered with a swarm of flying ants 😨
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Its quite nice out there now ... I’ve got some bathsheets on the line and OH has just cut the front grass.
Did I post about the fact that our ‘live and let live’
attitude to ants had lead them to think they’re welcome in our home? Flying ants all over the skirting board and wall in the sitting room yesterday evening ... afraid we had to use some pyrethroid stuff squirted down the crack between the floor and the skirting. Don’t like doing it let alone having it in GW house but we suspect they’re ‘living in the wall’ which will damage it. We’ve put some stuff outside along where the back of the bed and the wall join. We’ve been using the bait stations for three summers but they’ve obviously not been enough.
Ive vacuumed bodies up today and no sign of any more ... yet ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good luck with the ants too. Not something we usually have problems with here - I'm not even sure we get the flying ants at all.
They've just announced Franco Zeffirelli's died. Jesus of Nazareth was a 'must watch' in my house.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You must get the flying ants @Fairygirl ... they’re the boys ... no boys to ‘go flying’ with the Queen ... no ants. 😉
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.