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Simon's Allotment: October 2013
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Saturday, 5 October 2013. Tis the season - in danger of falling fruit, mystical fruitiness and all that. Plenty to eat from the plot as usual especially fruit - blackberries, raspberries, grapes, pears, tons of plums and apples. And spiders - lots of spiders:. Late season plants for pollinators. Many of the plants for bees and butterflies which were flowering in summer are still going strong: phacelia, nepeta, nicotiana, rose campion, snapdragons and the lovely cosmos:. Still popular with the bees. Late ...
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Simon's Allotment: Plants for bees and butterflies in June
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Saturday, 27 June 2015. Plants for bees and butterflies in June. Plenty of candy this month, here's what's flowering out on the plot:. Blood Pink (Dianthus cruentus). Campion - red and rose. Field Scabious (Knautia arvensis). Geranium pratense "Mrs Kendall Clark". Giant Scabious (Cephalaria gigantia). Golden Marguerite (Anthemis tinctoria "Sauce Hollandaise"). Poppies - cornfield and Shirley. Wallflower - wild and "Bowles Mauve". Tree bumblebee on Giant Scabious. Buff-tailed bumblebee on Phacelia.
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Simon's Allotment: June 2015
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Saturday, 27 June 2015. So the solstice has been and gone and I can finally stop living off asparagus and leaf beet. Broad beans, peas, carrots and cabbage all coming on stream now. A bit behind with the blogging this year but I can't get everything right. I'm continuing my experiments with which plants are best for bees and butterflies and have planted my favorites along with some newbies, more of which later. Hope you're all having a good season and enjoying the sun at last! Campion - red and rose.
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Simon's Allotment: July 2015
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Saturday, 25 July 2015. Echium "Blue Bedder" - one of the bee's favourites. Summer stunner: Helenium "Sahin's Early Flowerer". Hoverflies out in good numbers this month. As well as ladybirds. Hoverfly and thunderflies on Dahlia "Redskin". Hoverfly on Shirley poppy. White-tailed bumblebee on field scabious. Buff-tailed on opium poppy. Tree bumblebee on scabious. Agastache foenicolium and Rudbeckia "Marmalade" making a nice combination. Small tortoiseshell caterpillars on all-important nettles. Scabiosa at...
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Simon's Allotment: Spring equinox
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Friday, 20 March 2015. Well the equinox is here and I can get on with sowing some seeds. Whether I carry on with this blog is another matter, it seems to have fizzled out last summer; only time will tell I guess. In the meantime here's a picture of this morning's solar eclipse over our site. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Derby, East Midlands. View my complete profile. A plot for food and wildlife, over recent years focusing on finding the best plants for bees and butterflies. Links you might like.
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Simon's Allotment: March 2014
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Saturday, 8 March 2014. Spring in the air. So how was it for you? Wettest winter since the dawn of time etc etc. And so mild. I've been cropping purple sprouting broccoli for a fortnight now when usually it's not ready till the end of March, not that I'm complaining. Plans for the year ahead - lots more plants for bees and butterflies of course - watch this space. Early season flowers for bees and butterflies. Friday, 7 March 2014. Birds Foot Trefoil - Sown little patch 26.6. Broccoli "Sprouting Redhead"...
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Simon's Allotment: July 2014
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Tuesday, 29 July 2014. No shortage of fresh produce from the plot at this time of year. The peas are over but there's runner and climbing French beans, carrots, cabbages, kale, tomatoes, wild rocket and mizuna, blackberries, raspberries and cherry plums. A heatwave in the middle of the month has brought out plenty of butterflies and there's been no shortage of bees either. Plenty of nectar rich plants for them here of course - just about everything that was flowering last July. Agastache foeniculum (Anis...
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Simon's Allotment: July in pictures
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Saturday, 25 July 2015. Echium "Blue Bedder" - one of the bee's favourites. Summer stunner: Helenium "Sahin's Early Flowerer". Hoverflies out in good numbers this month. As well as ladybirds. Hoverfly and thunderflies on Dahlia "Redskin". Hoverfly on Shirley poppy. White-tailed bumblebee on field scabious. Buff-tailed on opium poppy. Tree bumblebee on scabious. Agastache foenicolium and Rudbeckia "Marmalade" making a nice combination. Small tortoiseshell caterpillars on all-important nettles.
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