Mag🐝and🐝Lil
@bumblebuddeez
Retired teacher, loves gardening🌸 (Mag)…Animal and music lover granddaughter 🎵(Lil 15) ……both care about conserving wildlife, especially bumblebees 🐝
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20-03-2017 20:39:17
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Happy #RoseWednesday with the first roses, from our lovely Rosa Rugosa hedge, to bloom in our garden 💕🌸💕🌸💕
NEW PROJECT: Hoverfly Lagoons 2024
This year we want to know how ponds in gardens affect recruitment of hoverflies to Lagoons. If you don't have a pond don't worry - you can still take part!
Find out more & sign up here: thebuzzclub.uk/hoverfly-lagoo…
Hoverfly Lagoons Ellen Rotheray
Some pink flowers for #WildflowerHour but only one, the red campion(bottom left), is a member of the #PinkFamily 🌸
Pete Thorncroft Clematis, one of our #ClematisThursday comrades in arms, has just won an RHS gold medal 🏅
Congratulations and well deserved 🥳👏👍
Happy #ClematisThursday with my mystery plant blooming at last 🌱 Jonathan Norman 🌱Joy on Cape Cod Thorncroft Clematis 👍
Perfect #clematisthursday for us at Thorncroft. Gold Medal at #RHSMalvern 🌱 Jonathan Norman Mag🐝and🐝Lil
For #InsectThursday out popped our first Centaurea Montana bloom, quickly followed by a buff tailed bumblebee 💙🐝💙
Happy #RoseWednesday with lovely Burnet or Scotch Rose usually first to bloom in our garden (but not yet) 💛🐝💚
A question for #GardensHour please🙏Can anyone tell me when to prune pieris? We have got a few, in various shades of pink fading away now …..thanks🩷❤️
MAY in our garden brings bluebells and bumblebees, planting out, planting up, alliums, first clematis blooms with more on the way and lovely Lily of the valley #GardensHour 🌸🐝🌿💚
Lovely day yesterday Sussex Wildlife Trust 🦔 Wood Mill running a bumblebee beginners course. Despite the rain 3 #bumblebee and 2 solitary #bee species. More courses are coming up. Do look at our events page Bumblebee Conservation Trust #wildflower 🌻🐝🌼
Last year I pointed out that National Trust’s mowing regime is destroying this ancient heath at Speke Hall, the last example of its kind in Merseyside. It wouldn’t take much to stop mowing here & increase heath without compromising on space. Wld be great to receive a response🌱❤️
For #WildflowerHour and #HedgerowChallenge this week…..Honesty, Cowslip, Green Alkanet, Welsh Poppy, Wild Strawberry, Shiny Cranesbill, Vinca and Archangel …..