Tag: bees

• August in the Garden

  I seem to have amassed a stack of gardening books, old and new, read and unread, which I love to browse through, along with seed catalogues, imagining the riot of colour and perfume that I could create – only I spend so long looking at gardening books, there is no time left to do anything!…

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  August 27, 2013

  Anna Pavord, August, bees, gardening, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Karel Capek, Katherine Swift, lavender, The Curious Gardener, The Gardening Year. The Gardener’s Year

• A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies!

  A Peacock butterfly perched on a white buddleia – isn’t he glorious? I’ve neglected my garden shamefully, and it’s terribly overgrown and out of hand, so I’ve been out there this week trying to hack back the jungle. And on Wednesday my efforts were reward by the most beautiful and amazing sight – butterflies! Hundreds…

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  August 10, 2013

  bees, butterflies, comma butterflies, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, kaleidoscope of butterflies, peacock butterflies, Saturday Snapshot

• Gardens and Wild Places

  Two reviews today as I’m still trying to catch up on posts. The reading is more or less on track, but the writing isn’t! There’s a link of sorts between these books, since they are both about about the environment, with reflections about man’s place within it, and both authors are intelligent, articulate, passionate about…

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  October 18, 2012

  bees, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Irish monks, Katherine Swift, lichens, plants, Robert MacFarlane, The Morville Year, The Wild Places