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Viper's Bugloss (Echium vulgare)

Viper's Bugloss is one of my favourite British wildflowers. It looks like a kind of poor man's Delphinium, but flowers for ever and it's just great for bees. It's not...

Road Verges and Wildflowers

There has been a sad little story in the Press over the last couple of days about the hamlet of Owermoigne. Apparently Dorset Council have failed to mow the grass...

Corncockle

Corncockle, Agrostemma githago, is a favourite plant. Not because it has special qualities, but rather as it seems a plant worth standing up for. Corncockle seems to have arrived in...

Solitary Bees

I empathise with solitary bees. When we think bee I guess we tend to think of honey bees - the one species of truly social bee we have. They chat...

Pond Plants for a Pond with a Liner

We used a butyl liner for our new pond, partly to see the difficulties it might cause. In the past we've used a really good product called Bentomat or just...

Breakfast!

As you'd expect, we have lots of goodies around the garden for bees at this time of year. I'd already seen my honeybees on the crocuses and today - great...