So I'm told @punkdoc but we've only seen them in the garden once, in our first summer here.  They'd hibernated under what is now a loose compost heap and come out for a bit of canoodling in the June sunshine.
Dare I say I'm a bit curmudgeonly that a WHITE hyrdrangea given to me by a dear friend has flowered beautifully with pinky purple flowers?Â
Thought my ears were burning😀😀 would you like me to try again,  The one I put ground at the same is still white. Don't mind doing some more.  I’ll take them from the oldest shrub.Â
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Â
Still no butterflies at all on my wild marjoram. It looks a mess and I'm getting peeved. I only leave it for them. Plenty of bees and/ or wasps thoughÂ
That is a shame @B3 , my marjoram is only wild 'cos I let it go mad and the herb patch is just covered in insects of all sorts at the moment. Don't give up!
Lots of those meadow brown butterflies and the ones where you think its a Red Admiral, realise its too small but its gone! Bumper crop of Cinnabar caterpillars this year too, it always looks like lots anyway when they go into a huddle Â
Sympathy for the sting too, not nice and likely to bring on negative garden vibes I imagine.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."Â Sir Terry Pratchett
My current gripe is this website keep flashing adverts for Canada's drag race on BBC3 both sides of the normal forum column & I can't work out how to stop it. (Chrome book).
 My gripe is ‘The Like Button - have your say’.
I often click on the top thread on the forum to see what’s being written but in the millisecond before my finger touches the screen it shifts a couple of centimetres so instead I bring up, repeatedly, the Like Button thread. Likewise on the BBC site I click on the sport button but am offered Cookies info.
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I rarely wear sandals too. Bl**dy sunny weather!Â
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
would you like me to try again, Â The one I put ground at the same is still white.Â
Don't mind doing some more.  I’ll take them from the oldest shrub.Â
Lots of those meadow brown butterflies and the ones where you think its a Red Admiral, realise its too small but its gone! Bumper crop of Cinnabar caterpillars this year too, it always looks like lots anyway when they go into a huddleÂ
Sympathy for the sting too, not nice and likely to bring on negative garden vibes I imagine.
I often click on the top thread on the forum to see what’s being written but in the millisecond before my finger touches the screen it shifts a couple of centimetres so instead I bring up, repeatedly, the Like Button thread. Likewise on the BBC site I click on the sport button but am offered Cookies info.