Growth follows the nibble ! Propagation aftercare and slugs and snails. 🌱💚

Bare root Convallaria rosea pips just pot up and wait

Toad with slug sleeping on it ! Greenhouse wildlife 💚

Fabulous leaf mining in the yellow oregano plus larvae at the end !

Sweetpea loves fresh dandelions !

Common Mourning Bee - Melecta albifrons a first in our garden !

Finding and identifying self sown perennials in Spring 🌱💚🐝

Species tulips in pots - Tulipa clusiana var. chrysantha potted in October flowering in early April

Yellowing leaves on ericaceous evergreens - pine needles and Pieris japonica and organic seaweed

Erythroniums from B&Q £6 per pot ! Bargain

A walk around a bit of the garden early April 2026

The evolution of mimicry - the beefly looks just like the male hairy footed flower bee 💚

Dead head those tulips 🌷

When the queen scouts for a new home

Recognising an existing solitary bee habitat in your garden and protecting 💚🌱

Avoiding tomato plant transplant shock 🌱🍅

One of my favourite ground nesters Andrena cineraria

Large Predators in an organic greenhouse 💚👏🌱🕷️

Cleaning the pond bloom - lots of tadpoles (toad poles) with room to move !

It’s a bugs life - beefly Bombylius major the parasitic bee mimic sunbathing.

Gorgeous Tulips - so lovely I could eat them !

Merodon equestris larvae (narcissus bulb fly) in allium bulb that was over wintered in a pot.

An early solitary bee smothered in pollen, what a joy!

What just one trained yellow evergreen can bring in to your garden.

Asplenium Trichomanes an Evergreen Outdoor fern in gaps in old wall

An apex predator in household compost 🌱💚

Erica lusitanica white flowers feb to April a shrub for all early bumble bees & small solitary bees

Toad houses are just wood and a few tiles 🐸💚

A great big beautiful spider in the gas canister

Freddie’s flowers £30 compared to high street florist £50

What a little beauty !

Simple pleasures first thing in the morning !

Listening to and watching bird song , my little red friend

Wiggle those toes !

Expensive snow drops - where to plant them ?

How many toads in one small pond ? Toad spawn

Juveniles navigating the human landscape!

Having my butt washed !

A great perfumed evergreen for deep shade in Spring!

Buying snowdrops from EBay Galanthus Elizabeth Burnham £40 for one Plant.

Such a joy. Waiting patiently for more food 💚

B & Q Bargain £3 ! Crazy mixed pot of snow drops! Buyer beware on eBay.

Bombus terrestris worker

Galanthus elwesii Chantry Green Twins finding space

Hellebore seedlings organic garden Southampton Hampshire UK

Spring Propagation Geranium phaeum Golden Samobor and electric bottom heat

Soil health - washing roots - horticultural trade trick

Fab upcycled plant table on wheels 🔨💚

Two twin scapes at RHS Wisley plus some new snowdrops ! Jaquanetta and Warham

The female is in there somewhere hopefully still alive. Toad ball

Explaining mother and daughter snowdrop bulbs

Snowdrop division before flowering and soil health - no head ! 😂👏

Relax with this Robin 🇬🇧

Tricks of the horticultural trade

@grok animation after a creativity frenzy !

Ranunculus sprouting ! 🌱💚

Emptying the kitchen compost and checking on the tiger worms

Fantastic eel in Dover Marina and a dead bird. Sailing Bumblebee in the UK

Grok Creation From a Bumblebee photograph In The Van Gough Style

October reality check in the greenhouse in Southampton UK