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Reasons to be cheerful - 2020

ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
in The potting shed
Time to change to the new year here!!

Have just seen a butterfly flitting past the window.  No idea what it was as it was moving too fast but brown and orange.   Lots of busy birdsong too.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Plato
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    They're gorgeous Dove. My first daffs are out, must be at least a month early.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Are we cheerful or not that we haven't had any winter yet? I think I'd like a few days of good hard frost to kill the bugs.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Dream on.  Very heavy frosts in our Belgian garden and no bovver at all for the pests and especially slugs which just burrow deeper to unfrozen ground and then come up and eat and breed when it's warmer.   Don't know where the aphids hif but they'd be there too and the shiny beetles that invade mint and the cabbage whites et al.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Well one or two might succumb. I was thinking more of the foreign visitors😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Like harlequin ladybirds?  Nope.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Roofers in their t shirts.
    Devon.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Heavy frost here last night but saw a postie in shorts this morning!
    My Clematis Armandii  has flowers! 
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    one of our posties is in shorts every day. Madness.
    Devon.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Forgot to say,  well done @Hostafan1 - I've cut my alcohol consumption down by half but don't think I could do without it altogether.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
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