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growing wildflowers for bees and butterflies

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

     

    A good giggle is very important, don't get serious.image

     



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Birdy13Birdy13 Posts: 595

    Hello Flobob (sorry ffb - had to try it just once!)

    Nutcutlet's absolutely right (seriously!) image

    PS nothing to forgive - you can't always tell can you? Sometimes we have to just wonder... 

     

  • Birdy13Birdy13 Posts: 595

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    Ffb said: 

    Sounds a bit like "The Flowerpot Men" talking to their friend "Weed" - remember them? But perhaps you are too young to have seen them on kiddies TV about 40 something ago?  

    Too young? What a sweet thing to say about me image - oooer, you're not a bloke are you?

    (jes' kiddin') image

    PS Remember them? How could I flobberpossibly floget? it was how I learnt to spleaK!  

  • Hi There Nutcutlet and Birdyl3,

    Thank you very much for your messages - it's great you both have a good

    sense of humour and I look forward  very much to our next giggle together!  image image

  • Birdy13Birdy13 Posts: 595

    image Dobberwobberflob? 

    Ahhh! Flobberwobberdob! image

     

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    weeeeeed



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • And the same to you two too!!!  Hello there! Now - getting serious ha! ha!, I need

    to ask you both can you tell me please what this flower is?.  I found it

    growing in the lawn close to the wildflower garden, but it's the only one

    and I've never seen it before.  At first I thought it was a baby thistle, but it's

    not at all prickly.  The thing is...I've dug it up because my OH was about to

    mow its pretty little head off and as it has lots of seed pods, I thought,, ..   if it was

    wild I could put it into the wildflower garden...but I'm not sure if it is, so please

    could you identify it for me, then I can plant it either in the wildflower garden or

    the ordinary garden.  Many thanks and t.b.f.n.imageimage

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  • Pottie PamPottie Pam Posts: 887

    Hi flowersforbees,

    I think it could be knapweed. A wild flower and good for bees.

    Pam image

  • Birdy13Birdy13 Posts: 595

    Sorry ffb, I know very little about wild flowers - can't really remember what I'm doing here actually image or even how I got here ... image

    Oh yes, Toolbars. Pottie Pam sounds confident, though, I'd go with her If I was you.

    (I say! I'm not you am I?) image

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    Yes, it's Greater Knapweed, ffb, lovely thing.

    There lesser knapweed as well, similar but lesserimage



    In the sticks near Peterborough
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