A mate used to get ticks every summers walk but never got pestered by midges. I get pestered badly by midges but ticks don't bite me. Mate gets them in very intimate places, places that needed his wife to reach when camping in a small 2 man tent in the Highlands. Whereas the first tick I ever saw was crawling off my arm and down my sofa arm. I didn't know what it was at first but soon learnt. It was tiny and hungry but not hungry enough to taste my blood. I had carried out off a Lakeland hill but it was being carried by me for at least 3 hours because that's how long it was from carpark to tick spotting.
I feel sorry for those who attract ticks. As bad as my issues with midges (if I'm around they'll be in a 3m cloud above my head and nobody else has them anywhere near) but they don't have the potential in the UK to cause serious illness like ticks.
I think I stopped counting at 20 last year. I am amazed that I haven't contracted Lymes disease yet as I have suffered hundreds of tick bites over the years. I also get bitten to b#ggery by mozzies, the worst being in Nelson's Hellhole of the Caribbean, Antigua when I got over a hundred bites on my arms on the first night.
I have been hardening off a lot of plants for a few weeks, told hubby yesterday they are now staying out overnight,he put them back! I've just spent 20 minutes Getting them out again. He even put a pot of crocosmia in the green house! I also have some perennials to plant, said am leaving them near the door do I don't forget y plant them,I did forget, why,he's put them out of the way on top of some staging he made grrrr
Caught the end of Charlie Dimmock's programme last night, ( not my cup of tea ) and she boldly stated that Jasminum Nudiflorum has " gorgeous , highly scented yellow flowers in winter " ! It doesn't !
Caught the end of Charlie Dimmock's programme last night, ( not my cup of tea ) and she boldly stated that Jasminum Nudiflorum has " gorgeous , highly scented yellow flowers in winter " ! It doesn't !
I never noticed any scent from mine (must try to remember to have a sniff next winter) and gorgeous is subjective I suppose. I like it, but then I also like my forsythia (suspensa not the bogbrush-shaped kind) so maybe I have dreadful taste .
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Caught the end of Charlie Dimmock's programme last night, ( not my cup of tea ) and she boldly stated that Jasminum Nudiflorum has " gorgeous , highly scented yellow flowers in winter " ! It doesn't !
It should do!
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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Well it was my leg actually.
I feel sorry for those who attract ticks. As bad as my issues with midges (if I'm around they'll be in a 3m cloud above my head and nobody else has them anywhere near) but they don't have the potential in the UK to cause serious illness like ticks.
It doesn't !
I never noticed any scent from mine (must try to remember to have a sniff next winter) and gorgeous is subjective I suppose. I like it, but then I also like my forsythia (suspensa not the bogbrush-shaped kind) so maybe I have dreadful taste