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Warm Autumn
herbgarden2
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I have just disturbed a large bumble bee in my living room and flies have been seen too ,still around now on the 11th of November Last week there were one or two butterflies Incredible ! I have also had to water new plants several times this week
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I have mad the most of a warm dry day a week, on cutting down the Rudbeckia I noticed quite a few ladybirds, in the new growth close to the ground. Strange that I never saw any thought the summer, they must have been there though.
I also uncovered a big bee, hope he will bee ok now I have cut some of his plant, I left most of it when I noticed him.
Wish the ladybird would come out for a snack, my roses are covered in aphids
Haven't needed to water anything here this week. We were worried about our small patch turning into a bog garden at the weekend.
I saw a butterfly today.
Warm, yes; dry, definitely not, lots of rain here in North West. I cannot walk on the lawn at present for fear of impacting the wet clay. Insect life; well, lots of bluebottles flying into the house [windows open due to warmth].
The tomato flowers will certainly succumb but the broad beans and bulbs will be fine. The Bb don't need protection (assuming they're an overwintering variety like Aquadulce Claudia) but if they get more than 6" or so high before winterI think I'd prune them back a little.
V warm and currently dry here (Flanders) but we're due to get the fringes of that hurricane that's about to batter Scotland
Butterflies, wasps, all sorts around.
This is the first morning Ive woken up to a dry morning in days it's not stopped rainniing. That's Cumbria, beautiful but wet x
Same here Amber on Dartmoor. I haven't watered the garden at all this year, and the patio tubs and baskets probadly about 6/8 times. Have been known to do it every day before..
Autumns have stretched three to three and a half weeks longer since fifty years ago according to the government. we should be saving on heating.
I remember it as the same though, way back 60 years ago. I used to go out the day after bonfire night picking up dead fireworks, God knows why!!!! Maybe it was warmer in London. But then when we did get the snow it seemed to last for ages, at least in did in 1947 and 1962/3.