September 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Lots of gleaning .. pollen .. nectar .. insects .. worms .. grubs
& spring preening ..
& loud to very loud singing on the #Allotment today!
I mostly observed and listened .. that's work .. kinda ☺️
#Bumblebees #Trees #Springbloom #birds #Grow4Nature
& spring preening ..
& loud to very loud singing on the #Allotment today!
I mostly observed and listened .. that's work .. kinda ☺️
#Bumblebees #Trees #Springbloom #birds #Grow4Nature
March 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Lots of gleaning .. pollen .. nectar .. insects .. worms .. grubs
& spring preening ..
& loud to very loud singing on the #Allotment today!
I mostly observed and listened .. that's work .. kinda ☺️
#Bumblebees #Trees #Springbloom #birds #Grow4Nature
& spring preening ..
& loud to very loud singing on the #Allotment today!
I mostly observed and listened .. that's work .. kinda ☺️
#Bumblebees #Trees #Springbloom #birds #Grow4Nature
Holly Blue captured in half shade on a Variegated Holly tree along the path leading to my allotment today ''
#Grow4Nature
#Grow4Nature
April 7, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Holly Blue captured in half shade on a Variegated Holly tree along the path leading to my allotment today ''
#Grow4Nature
#Grow4Nature
This 👇 is what we all should be doing 👏👏 !
Get rid of those plants that do not serve nature and plant/let grow those that do instead!
#Grow4Nature #Naturecannotwait
Get rid of those plants that do not serve nature and plant/let grow those that do instead!
#Grow4Nature #Naturecannotwait
One of the first things we did when we moved house, rip out a laurel hedge and plant a native mix. Had our first five hawthorn berries last year!
March 27, 2025 at 10:17 AM
This 👇 is what we all should be doing 👏👏 !
Get rid of those plants that do not serve nature and plant/let grow those that do instead!
#Grow4Nature #Naturecannotwait
Get rid of those plants that do not serve nature and plant/let grow those that do instead!
#Grow4Nature #Naturecannotwait
Bumble back scratch ..
ahhh .. nice!
Excuse the noise from my crap camera .. best soothing watch without sound 😊
The queens are emerging and need nectar energy folks!
#Allotment #Beeblossomplease #Grow4Nature
ahhh .. nice!
Excuse the noise from my crap camera .. best soothing watch without sound 😊
The queens are emerging and need nectar energy folks!
#Allotment #Beeblossomplease #Grow4Nature
March 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Bumble back scratch ..
ahhh .. nice!
Excuse the noise from my crap camera .. best soothing watch without sound 😊
The queens are emerging and need nectar energy folks!
#Allotment #Beeblossomplease #Grow4Nature
ahhh .. nice!
Excuse the noise from my crap camera .. best soothing watch without sound 😊
The queens are emerging and need nectar energy folks!
#Allotment #Beeblossomplease #Grow4Nature
Well it doesn't look as exciting as you thought, but for a small bird with an appetite for worms and fruit flies, it's Autumn heaven on a plate.
#letfruitfall
#Grow4Nature
#letfruitfall
#Grow4Nature
September 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Well it doesn't look as exciting as you thought, but for a small bird with an appetite for worms and fruit flies, it's Autumn heaven on a plate.
#letfruitfall
#Grow4Nature
#letfruitfall
#Grow4Nature
July 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
& that of wildlife, I'd root these exotics out right away & grow something far more benign that can actually help our declining nature.
#Grow4Nature
6/6
#Grow4Nature
6/6
April 5, 2026 at 1:50 PM
& that of wildlife, I'd root these exotics out right away & grow something far more benign that can actually help our declining nature.
#Grow4Nature
6/6
#Grow4Nature
6/6
Common Blue male #butterfly perched on tip of a #YorkshireFog inflorescence.
Some Lawn Care cos (NOT Lawn Association!) call this native an invasive grass in lawns 🙄.. it's the main food plant of 4 different butterfly species!
Don't seek their advice if you want nature to thrive! #Grow4Nature
Some Lawn Care cos (NOT Lawn Association!) call this native an invasive grass in lawns 🙄.. it's the main food plant of 4 different butterfly species!
Don't seek their advice if you want nature to thrive! #Grow4Nature
August 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Common Blue male #butterfly perched on tip of a #YorkshireFog inflorescence.
Some Lawn Care cos (NOT Lawn Association!) call this native an invasive grass in lawns 🙄.. it's the main food plant of 4 different butterfly species!
Don't seek their advice if you want nature to thrive! #Grow4Nature
Some Lawn Care cos (NOT Lawn Association!) call this native an invasive grass in lawns 🙄.. it's the main food plant of 4 different butterfly species!
Don't seek their advice if you want nature to thrive! #Grow4Nature
Please please don't rely on Buddleja and Gardener's World gardeners to make your garden insect-friendly!
Get out there, walk along a river or path and find out what the insects think 🦋🐝🦗🐛🐞 and
#Grow4Nature because nature needs our help not our myths!
Get out there, walk along a river or path and find out what the insects think 🦋🐝🦗🐛🐞 and
#Grow4Nature because nature needs our help not our myths!
July 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Please please don't rely on Buddleja and Gardener's World gardeners to make your garden insect-friendly!
Get out there, walk along a river or path and find out what the insects think 🦋🐝🦗🐛🐞 and
#Grow4Nature because nature needs our help not our myths!
Get out there, walk along a river or path and find out what the insects think 🦋🐝🦗🐛🐞 and
#Grow4Nature because nature needs our help not our myths!
Some special characters from the #Allotment this afternoon:
🔸Eristalis tenax (Dronefly) in the Marsh marigold
🔸Blackbird in full song
🔸Peacock with its faded Turkish carpet wings in the Globe artichoke
🔸Not least a Small White looking stunning on a Bramble leaf
#Grow4Nature
🔸Eristalis tenax (Dronefly) in the Marsh marigold
🔸Blackbird in full song
🔸Peacock with its faded Turkish carpet wings in the Globe artichoke
🔸Not least a Small White looking stunning on a Bramble leaf
#Grow4Nature
March 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Some special characters from the #Allotment this afternoon:
🔸Eristalis tenax (Dronefly) in the Marsh marigold
🔸Blackbird in full song
🔸Peacock with its faded Turkish carpet wings in the Globe artichoke
🔸Not least a Small White looking stunning on a Bramble leaf
#Grow4Nature
🔸Eristalis tenax (Dronefly) in the Marsh marigold
🔸Blackbird in full song
🔸Peacock with its faded Turkish carpet wings in the Globe artichoke
🔸Not least a Small White looking stunning on a Bramble leaf
#Grow4Nature
Ops!
Yet another Blue tit in the Goat willow pic ..
.. another great thing about this tree and willows in general is that they regrow well with either coppicing or pollarding control of growth and you get lots poles/stakes for you veg plot peas & beans!!
Fabulous #GoatWillow
#Grow4Nature
Yet another Blue tit in the Goat willow pic ..
.. another great thing about this tree and willows in general is that they regrow well with either coppicing or pollarding control of growth and you get lots poles/stakes for you veg plot peas & beans!!
Fabulous #GoatWillow
#Grow4Nature
March 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Ops!
Yet another Blue tit in the Goat willow pic ..
.. another great thing about this tree and willows in general is that they regrow well with either coppicing or pollarding control of growth and you get lots poles/stakes for you veg plot peas & beans!!
Fabulous #GoatWillow
#Grow4Nature
Yet another Blue tit in the Goat willow pic ..
.. another great thing about this tree and willows in general is that they regrow well with either coppicing or pollarding control of growth and you get lots poles/stakes for you veg plot peas & beans!!
Fabulous #GoatWillow
#Grow4Nature
old Cherry tree & Goat Willow as do Great & Blue tits; after all they are woodland birds adapting to our gardens due to dearth of woods in the UK.
Today the C doves were in the Cherry tree or on the fence giving me a stare-out 🤔
#Grow4Nature #GrowNativePlants #Grow4Insects #birdsneedgoodhabitats
6/6
Today the C doves were in the Cherry tree or on the fence giving me a stare-out 🤔
#Grow4Nature #GrowNativePlants #Grow4Insects #birdsneedgoodhabitats
6/6
April 10, 2026 at 5:54 PM
old Cherry tree & Goat Willow as do Great & Blue tits; after all they are woodland birds adapting to our gardens due to dearth of woods in the UK.
Today the C doves were in the Cherry tree or on the fence giving me a stare-out 🤔
#Grow4Nature #GrowNativePlants #Grow4Insects #birdsneedgoodhabitats
6/6
Today the C doves were in the Cherry tree or on the fence giving me a stare-out 🤔
#Grow4Nature #GrowNativePlants #Grow4Insects #birdsneedgoodhabitats
6/6
Walking along a path flanked by species-rich tall & short grassland that's teaming w insects is such a joy despite all the flies that seem to love my sweaty arms 🙄
If we emulated this in our many gardens, just think how it could support a host of creatures in jeopardy in this country!
#Grow4Nature
If we emulated this in our many gardens, just think how it could support a host of creatures in jeopardy in this country!
#Grow4Nature
July 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Walking along a path flanked by species-rich tall & short grassland that's teaming w insects is such a joy despite all the flies that seem to love my sweaty arms 🙄
If we emulated this in our many gardens, just think how it could support a host of creatures in jeopardy in this country!
#Grow4Nature
If we emulated this in our many gardens, just think how it could support a host of creatures in jeopardy in this country!
#Grow4Nature
Tattered already but tougher than they look, & #SpeckledWood & #Peacock both so beautiful!
Just don't take these common butterflies 4 granted as equally widespread ones in recent past have become scarcer. Grow their larval foodplants, native grasses & nettle, & give them room to bask!
#Grow4nature
Just don't take these common butterflies 4 granted as equally widespread ones in recent past have become scarcer. Grow their larval foodplants, native grasses & nettle, & give them room to bask!
#Grow4nature
May 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Tattered already but tougher than they look, & #SpeckledWood & #Peacock both so beautiful!
Just don't take these common butterflies 4 granted as equally widespread ones in recent past have become scarcer. Grow their larval foodplants, native grasses & nettle, & give them room to bask!
#Grow4nature
Just don't take these common butterflies 4 granted as equally widespread ones in recent past have become scarcer. Grow their larval foodplants, native grasses & nettle, & give them room to bask!
#Grow4nature
I arrived in 1955.
I come from Asia.
For decades I thrived.
My delicate grey pinks appealed.
Humans seem to like my 'hoo hoooo-hoo'.
We gather with all our mates where there's food aplenty.
They say that's why we are getting ill and many are dying.
#StopFeedingBirds #Grow4Nature
I come from Asia.
For decades I thrived.
My delicate grey pinks appealed.
Humans seem to like my 'hoo hoooo-hoo'.
We gather with all our mates where there's food aplenty.
They say that's why we are getting ill and many are dying.
#StopFeedingBirds #Grow4Nature
April 11, 2026 at 3:27 PM
I arrived in 1955.
I come from Asia.
For decades I thrived.
My delicate grey pinks appealed.
Humans seem to like my 'hoo hoooo-hoo'.
We gather with all our mates where there's food aplenty.
They say that's why we are getting ill and many are dying.
#StopFeedingBirds #Grow4Nature
I come from Asia.
For decades I thrived.
My delicate grey pinks appealed.
Humans seem to like my 'hoo hoooo-hoo'.
We gather with all our mates where there's food aplenty.
They say that's why we are getting ill and many are dying.
#StopFeedingBirds #Grow4Nature
Having pulled muscles in my back from wee 2 much digging in heavy clay soil 4 orange-fronted demanding one, today was just a top-up-for-wildlife trip to refill; hemp bag w fluffed-up hemp string 4 nesters; pond 4 tadpoles & other aquatic life; water bowl 4 insects & ever-so-gently 1/2
#Grow4Nature
#Grow4Nature
March 26, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Having pulled muscles in my back from wee 2 much digging in heavy clay soil 4 orange-fronted demanding one, today was just a top-up-for-wildlife trip to refill; hemp bag w fluffed-up hemp string 4 nesters; pond 4 tadpoles & other aquatic life; water bowl 4 insects & ever-so-gently 1/2
#Grow4Nature
#Grow4Nature
If you want to encourage the ever-moving migrant #HumminbirdHawkmoths into your green space, grow bedstraws!
Apologies for fuzzy wings but my lens shutter gave up capturing the little Speedy Gonzales after 10 attempts 🤪
#allotment #grow4nature
Apologies for fuzzy wings but my lens shutter gave up capturing the little Speedy Gonzales after 10 attempts 🤪
#allotment #grow4nature
August 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
If you want to encourage the ever-moving migrant #HumminbirdHawkmoths into your green space, grow bedstraws!
Apologies for fuzzy wings but my lens shutter gave up capturing the little Speedy Gonzales after 10 attempts 🤪
#allotment #grow4nature
Apologies for fuzzy wings but my lens shutter gave up capturing the little Speedy Gonzales after 10 attempts 🤪
#allotment #grow4nature
rake some soil 2 uncover worms & grubs 4 you-know-who.
Despite cool north-westerly breeze reducing flying insects, it was good to watch Great tits, Blue tits & 2 Chaffinches either chilling or feeding on insects in the Goat willows or Cherry tree.
Nature does actually know best 😊
2/2
#Grow4Nature
Despite cool north-westerly breeze reducing flying insects, it was good to watch Great tits, Blue tits & 2 Chaffinches either chilling or feeding on insects in the Goat willows or Cherry tree.
Nature does actually know best 😊
2/2
#Grow4Nature
March 26, 2026 at 3:55 PM
rake some soil 2 uncover worms & grubs 4 you-know-who.
Despite cool north-westerly breeze reducing flying insects, it was good to watch Great tits, Blue tits & 2 Chaffinches either chilling or feeding on insects in the Goat willows or Cherry tree.
Nature does actually know best 😊
2/2
#Grow4Nature
Despite cool north-westerly breeze reducing flying insects, it was good to watch Great tits, Blue tits & 2 Chaffinches either chilling or feeding on insects in the Goat willows or Cherry tree.
Nature does actually know best 😊
2/2
#Grow4Nature
#MaleBlackbird .. & father of three .. was making much fuss & mess in the tall grassy area of #allotment but not really getting even a snack 4 the youngsters.
Meanwhile, #ladyBlackbird went for my newly raked & watered seedbed.
Not saying, but I think the lady's the one w/ the brains 🙄
#Grow4nature
Meanwhile, #ladyBlackbird went for my newly raked & watered seedbed.
Not saying, but I think the lady's the one w/ the brains 🙄
#Grow4nature
May 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
#MaleBlackbird .. & father of three .. was making much fuss & mess in the tall grassy area of #allotment but not really getting even a snack 4 the youngsters.
Meanwhile, #ladyBlackbird went for my newly raked & watered seedbed.
Not saying, but I think the lady's the one w/ the brains 🙄
#Grow4nature
Meanwhile, #ladyBlackbird went for my newly raked & watered seedbed.
Not saying, but I think the lady's the one w/ the brains 🙄
#Grow4nature
Yes and growing for nature is an even greater joy!
#Grow4Nature #Grow4insects #Protectthesoilbiome
#WeareinthisWorldtogether
#Grow4Nature #Grow4insects #Protectthesoilbiome
#WeareinthisWorldtogether
March 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Yes and growing for nature is an even greater joy!
#Grow4Nature #Grow4insects #Protectthesoilbiome
#WeareinthisWorldtogether
#Grow4Nature #Grow4insects #Protectthesoilbiome
#WeareinthisWorldtogether