They certainly dig tunnels!
This is our Snowdrop Wood. The smell today was heavenly and the flowers were alive with little mining bees too. Magic! [img] ( photo /...
Try using Gmail and see how much tracking there is. Mind there are tracing elements on here too!
We have W7 and Firefox with this Add on and the speed is the same as it was before.
Not only in the USA does this happen. Our local town has no night time entertainment, other than Pubs for the young people, ie no Clubs. Why?...
Amazing what you can capture when trying to get something else. I was merely trying to get a decent shot of the thrush.
[img] It is cold out there! ( photo / image / picture from Palustris's Garden ) Can I snuggle up? It's cold out there!
Or how about these two? [img] Lonicera fragrantissima ( photo / image / picture from Palustris's Garden ) [img] Frosted...
Viburnum x bodnantense Dawn a week apart. [img] V. Dawn ( photo / image / picture from Palustris's Garden ) [img] ( photo /...
Cal. We are fortunate in that Viburnums do well here, We have about 25 of them and most do have a good scent, but not all. V. carlesii is good,...
Shows, we had the driest Summer here. On average we had about 1 inch of rain per month from May until November. Some of the local rivers stopped...
What Sun? Yes. but the cost of one is out of our price range and the reports on them are not flattering. The pond is big enough and deep enough...
The trouble with water features like those, is the need for electricity and the pond is a long way from the house. Taking a cable down there would...
The Gentiana flower is about 2 inches long and about an inch across at the mouth. The whole plant normally produces 20 or so blooms in Spring and...
Both the Lonicera are well scented, but this is the most scented of all. [img] Viburnum x bodnantense Dawn ( photo / image / picture from...
Some more December blooms [img] Antirrhinum molle ( photo / image / picture from Palustris's Garden ) [img] Gentiana acaulis (...
Best of luck with them. We are lucky in that we are surrounded by fields of Oil seed Rape and Brassica aphids go for them rather than ours...
Also applies to any caterpillars which need to be hand picked off. We check about once a week for aphids.
The black stuff is insect 'detritus' in all probability. They get onto the sprouts as they form and leave their droppings and the sprout forms...