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I will just have to make do with this unsigned copy of Richard Negus new book 😃! I’m very much looking forward to his words of wisdom and my purchase through The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust will ensure a little bit goes towards further #wildlife research!

The first large cabbage white caterpillars have arrived here Pippa Greenwood and Guy Barter ! #gardeningtips

Alan E Down oh no!!!!! I’ve not even seen the cabbage white butterflies, either sort yet! Eeeergh!

That's early, overwintered ones presumably, we tend to get migratory ones later, but far fewer than there used to be. Possibly different methods in E European cabbage fields where the lepidopteran horde originates.

Magnificent climbing #roses covering the end of a large property locally! These are superbly trained.

Once again Mrs D’s #sweetpeas have started to bloom and are smelling absolutely divine. We favour Kings Seeds for their exceptional variety range!

These are gorgeous!

Rosa Munstead Wood

There’s a promise of a good walnut crop this year……if the grey squirrels and rooks don’t beat me to them!

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Some old hybrid musk #roses already looking and smelling great - Buff Beauty, Penelope and Felicia

The last of the old oak stumps is now in place by our new waterscape! It’s good to have a friend with an old tractor to call on! Now for even more #plants 😊 🪏🪴

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Well I had hoped for this but really didn’t expect it! A measure of how mild our winter was? Variegated Chlorophytum- traditionally an indoor plant - has survived outside and is regrowing happily under a hornbeam tree here in south Somerset.

We should have done this before! A liberal layer of gravel really sets off our Mediterranean themed #plants! #gardentips

Spotted our first allotment oak processionary moth. Nothing to be done, we just keep an eye and avoid them. #allotment

Extra petals on the first #Hollyhock to open this year.

A little lost where I’ve planted it (I’ll move it later) but Dierama mossii is putting on a good show. Shorter than the more common Angel’s Fishing Rod Dierama pulcherirrimum.

So happy to find the lanes that lead to the amazing Iford Manor full of Ornithogalum pyrenaicum aka Bath Asparagus! wildflowerhour

A little gruesome but proving that the common wasp is a gardener’s friend! Decapitation of a cabbage white caterpillar by a #wasp. Hope Pippa Greenwood Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈 and Guy Barter will share🤞(and have already had breakfast!) #wildlife #gardentips