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If I didn't know better, I'd have said some prankster had been down on our new wildflower area and thrown handfuls of cooked spaghetti over some plants (see pic above). But no, this was nature at its wierdest. What we had was a couple of patches of dodder - yellow dodder to be precise ( Cuscuta...
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Visitors to Wisley enjoying Plants for Bugs in the sunshine Last Thursday the sun finally shone through for us. In fact, it was so hot we had to keep dipping under the trees to cool down in the shade. But the reality is that this near non-stop rain has turned our newly sown wildflower area next to Plants...
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Calling all entomologists out there - we need your help identifying this little guy above. We're pretty certain it's a bush cricket nymph (one of the early instars) but they're not so easy to determine at this stage. If you think you might know, drop us a comment. As well as spotting crickets...
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Any takers for adding a caption?! Here's Judi and myself with the bamboo frames used to mark out the new wildflower area. Maybe the pressure was getting to us a little. For those of you that haven't sown wildflowers before, here are some steps; 1. Prepare the ground by removing all weeds and...
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