A nature conservation blog about the fauna and flora of Wilden Marsh Nature Reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Lower Stour Valley, Worcestershire, England.
A nature conservation blog about the fauna and flora of Wilden Marsh Nature Reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Lower Stour Valley, Worcestershire, England.
My garden grows as it wants to. I do nothing with it, just let the plants grow where they want and they decide whether to grow in my garden. I have ragwort, thistle, nettles, vetch, rosebay willowherb, coltsfoot, and many other growing in my garden. My neighbours have put a six ft high fence so they don’t have to see it as I don’t ‘tend’ it so to other people it just looks horrible but I have masses of wildlife in it – slow worms, common lizards, toads, many butterflies and moths (Cinnabar and Ringlet butterfly plus a couple I have yet to identify), plus loads of lady birds, crickets, snails and slugs – all are welcome! I am regularly visited by foxes and hedgehogs too…it is heaven to me 🙂
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Great capture, Mike.
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Thanks, Vicki. 🙂
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Wonderful colours
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Thank you< Graham.
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I have loads of them in my garden and the moths too. so wonderful!
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Good! I hope you are looking after them. What are you feeding them on?
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My garden grows as it wants to. I do nothing with it, just let the plants grow where they want and they decide whether to grow in my garden. I have ragwort, thistle, nettles, vetch, rosebay willowherb, coltsfoot, and many other growing in my garden. My neighbours have put a six ft high fence so they don’t have to see it as I don’t ‘tend’ it so to other people it just looks horrible but I have masses of wildlife in it – slow worms, common lizards, toads, many butterflies and moths (Cinnabar and Ringlet butterfly plus a couple I have yet to identify), plus loads of lady birds, crickets, snails and slugs – all are welcome! I am regularly visited by foxes and hedgehogs too…it is heaven to me 🙂
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Sounds lovely. It’ll be the ragwort they’ll be eating, then.
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Oh yeah, lots of Ragwort. There are big colonies of Cinnabar moth caterpillars all over it.
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