Definitely an earwig.
Who has time to dead-head?
And a few Saxifrages. I have not got a picture of the yellow flowered one. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Have to admit that this is how I normally take cuttings. [ATTACH] Pure sharp sand and in a frame with a shaded lid. Used to have heating cables...
So here goes. I used Saxifraga koelnatiana atropurpurea as I need some of it for myself. [ATTACH] Three pieces, one with out roots, but all of...
Don't forget that the rosette which flowers will die. I like them too and have grown well over 50 different forms of the various species. They...
S.paniculata is one of the silvers. Cuttings are dead easy. Take a rosette or two or three from the edge of the plant, with a bit of stem and put...
What kind of Saxifrage? Silvers and Porophyllum types are best done from cuttings, about now.
So here is the place today. See the Heath Robinson attempt to stop the badger climbing the gate. Still not up to taking shots of the damage...
They have also been digging at the bottom of the garden. Bees nest I think. That means they are getting in somewhere else too! Moles do ankle...
More damage than ever last night. They have now started on another section of the garden. No tulips in it, but there are, or were crocus bulbs. I...
No damage for a couple of nights now so fingers crossed. As I said before, the only way to put an electric barrier round would be in the field...
Spent the morning filling in the dug holes with top soil. 4 big barrow loads. At least now we will be able to see if they are digging more and if...
No signs of any incursion last night. My finger is painful and I have a lump on my forehead. Just read that many of the old remedies are now illegal.
The perimeter of our property is a strip of uncultivated land. It is very easy to see where the badgers are making paths through the weeds. The...
Well, that is another length of fencing installed. Cost only a sliced to the bone finger, a badly bruised forehead where I leant into a branch. We...
Forgot about the scratched eye because the wind blows the dust up.
There are at least three badger setts within a mile of us, that I know of. there may be more, so catching them and moving one would probably be a...
Yes, like scratches from brambles which turn septic, back ache from doing too much, raised stress levels from badger damage, allergic reaction to...
Still not managed to stop them getting in. They are still digging up the one section of the garden. It must still smell of tulips. I think they...
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