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Bees

in front of you! I moved house myself about two years ago and have been creating a wildlife friendly garden ever since. Within this last two years I have seen the number of bees, butterflies and all types of other wildlife increase dramatically! I have by Midget25

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04/08/2012 16:46:49

by blueberry77

Talkback: Garden wildlife and autumn tidying

of small front gardens all different however, as they are providing a range of habitats for the bees and butterflies. Some of them prefer the spring show, some summer and some look great in autumn with lots of berries and Michaelmas daisies. Here lies by Richard Jones

28/11/2011 18:41:26

by Biffo

Talkback: Dung-flies and rat-tailed maggots

Good idea, Kate. My nettle patches are growing strongly now so i should be able to harvest some and leave the rest for the caterpillars till I cut them in June. I saw my first Speckled wood butterfly this morning - near my potting shed which by happymarion

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30/05/2012 18:12:59

by Katie Blue

Nettles

pulling them up. Are they really such a nuisance? Many butterfly caterpillars, particularly the peacock butterfly Whoops, some thing went wrong there, got cut off! What also wanted to say was, perhaps you could just leave one or two plants for them? Hi by Bunny..

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27/02/2013 22:33:07

by Bunny..

Talkback: Hibernating wasps

"We never see butterflies in the garden" says my mother, then when cleaning out the log store over Xmas she finds two hibernating peacock butterflies. So they were there, we replaced them as best we could, the covered log pile seems to desirable by rudy bryan

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12/03/2012 12:00:10

by Stewart Setter

How & when erisimum & scabious cuttings?

I'm not very experienced wtih cuttings, could anyone tell me when & describe how to take them from erisimum bowles mauve & scabious butterfly blue? They're both meant to be hardy but I don't want to take any chances & would like more of them by Lokelani

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06/07/2012 09:46:16

by Lokelani

Herb infestation

outdoors. Could these yellow eggs have been laid by butterflies? I have never seen them before. Yes there are little white eggs on the stems and under a couple of the leaves there are yellow eggs and I noticed at least 2 of them have a horizontal black by phoenixx87

01/10/2012 20:17:49

by phoenixx87

Plants for narrow border

problem in the way that wasps might be. You'd get lovely perfume and butterflies too. I once planted a border along the path in my back garden with lavender. It attracted many bees and also hoverflies. I went to the line with a basket of washing one day by Berkley

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27/02/2013 10:34:25

by elydavid

Which Delphinium seeds?

. Perhaps I'll sow some seeds for next year, but also buy some plants for this year. Thanks geoff I haven't the room for great big delphiniums but I usually grow a dwarf variety delphinium chinensis blue butterfly (as an annual) from seed. It flowers by LeadFarmer

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01/04/2013 01:52:27

by Sam Glendinning

Talkback: Whitefly

recommed visiting the Buglife website, to read their report summarising independent research on neonicotinoids. They kill bees & other non-target insects - eg. butterflies etc. Miniscule amounts impair the ability of insect to function resulting inevitably by allotment51

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24/11/2011 15:29:06

by ILOVEBEES

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