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growing wildflowers for bees and butterflies

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    You've got a PM and an email ffb



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Nutcutlet  I PMd you a while ago and immediately afterwards my computer

    shut itself down (or rather Windows did, they found something wrong with it).

    It's taken them all this time to correct the error, so I'm only just able to check my

    emails.  Hope you get my PM o.k. as that's been acting up for me too lately!  image

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,441

    Yes, it's here thank you.  You're working OK



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Hi Everyone,

    I'm back (for tonight at least!!)  Sorry not to have posted for a long time, but

    I've been looking after my daughter whose been very poorly and haven't had

    time to keep in touch.  My wildflower garden has been beautiful this year, but

    sadly, I don't have many photos to prove it (again no time)but I do have one or

    two taken in May.  This year it really did well after all the rain and seeds which

    hadn't germinated last year sprang up and surprised me!  Mainly they were

    poppies and I was so pleased to see them after being disappointed last year.

    I've just watched Monty Don weeding his wildflower garden and I'm happy to say 

    I decided to do that with mine last year and it paid dividends in that I have hardly

    anything growing in my wildflower garden this year that I don't want.  Now sadly,

    it's past its best and as we've had heavy rain this evening I'm expecting to find

    it decimated tomorrow.  We've had hardly any rain here for about six weeks, so

    the ground is rock hard, but it seems to have suited the corncockles and

    cornflowers and marigolds thank goodness.  My O/H laughs at me when I ask

    him to help me to water it (It's a long way from the house -so no hose-pipe, but

    I really think it needs a helping hand sometimes - what do you think?

    Below are one or two photos of the garden in May - will try to do better with

    photos and posting next year!  Best wishes everyone! Ffb.

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     Just a p.s. to ask if you can zoom in to see the pictures as I had just

    tried and it worked with the first one but not with the others.  Not sure

    what to do about this and the pictures aren't really much good if you

    can't see them in close-up.  Would be grateful for any feed back on

    this. image

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