Nature Blog by Jenny Bourne
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Sunflowers, path plants, spotless ladybird, harvest
Thursday 24th August 2017
Measuring sunflowers round the site for the Autumn Social children’s tallest sunflower competition – there are some giants out there over 300cm high! As with much produce this season, everything seems to be at least 2-3 weeks early – huge sunflower heads flopping and blackberries almost over.
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Seedbox mystery, buff tip moth caterpillars, fungi and grasshoppers
Wednesday 9th August 2017
Last week, on emptying my seed box this mystery habitat revealed itself.
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Jersey Tiger and other 'not the usual suspects' sightings!
Monday 31st July 2017
Carol spotted and snapped this unusual visitor to our site on 16 July. Yesterday she and Jon gave me the heads up that it had reappeared and I belted over to the SE side of the site, rewarded with a fine…
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Communal Front bed, Slinky Malinky, bee post occupied, rain at last, bees and butterflies
Thursday 13th July 2017
Yes, it is over planted, but hey…
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Marbled whites, cinnabars, buddleja, front bed and Slinky Malinky!
Wednesday 5th July 2017
A marbled white sighting wsa reported around the SE site plots last Sunday – a few days later there one was, perched on a scabious…