Nature Blog by Jenny Bourne
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Sex lives of dunnocks shock news!
Wednesday 8th March 2017
Let’s start with the less salacious news from the plot! Spring is on the way – a large queen bumble unsteadily tottering around in the shed guttering a few days ago, crocus, hellebores and daffs now…
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Spring is bustin' out....
Monday 27th February 2017
The first queen bumblebee spotted last week clambouring around in my shed guttering, honeybees in the hellebores, crocuses and snowdrops and the first iris reticulata and ‘tete a tete’ narcissi out under my old apple tree – suddenly…
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Happy Birthday, Blog!
Tuesday 31st January 2017
Unbelievably it’s the third anniversary of this blog tomorrow (2nd Feb 2017)! Many many pictures of birds, bees, butterflies, flowers and allotment landscapes later and still as avid as ever about all things wildlife, the natural enviroment and all…
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Green shoots, cold cold wet and fungus
Thursday 12th January 2017
Green shoots beginning to push up from the soil and now this single clump of snowdrops is a harbinger of spring to come.. I originally put in several different snowdrop varieties but so far only this one has made a re-appearance!
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Auld Lang Syne
Saturday 31st December 2016
One small item of good news from the litany of loss and ‘unpresidented’ year’s events – some UK ash trees appear to have a natural resistance to ash die back, giving some hope in the natural world! At this time of year the park trees around the allotment site filter the low, winter sun through their bare branches and the…