I've obviously had lots of large whites in my garden over the last couple of days. I've just inspected the undersides of my broccoli leaves and removed loads of eggs!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My local park has left a couple of patches to go wild and boy has it made a difference to the butterflies, weve also had orange tips this year which id never seen before, only one or two small blues but lots and lots of whites
I grow cabbages and all other manner of brassicas, its like everything else, once the plants are a decent size, it takes an awful lot to really damage them, i left the creatures to get on with it last year, the cabbages looked like lace, but recovered towards the end of summer and headded up nicely, live and let live, there is plenty to go round
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I've obviously had lots of large whites in my garden over the last couple of days. I've just inspected the undersides of my broccoli leaves and removed loads of eggs!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm still lacking blues
But more skippers that ever before
In the sticks near Peterborough
Amazing what a bit of long grass can do
It's good to see. The whites are lovely. Just the cabbage growers don't like them.
I'm not a cabbage grower
In the sticks near Peterborough
A new Red Admiral at the edge of the pond
It looked as if it was feeding from the surface of the stones.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.