SaraM wrote: ↑Sun Jun 21, 2020 7:02 pm The apology was for the breakdown in moderating, not the personal slurs, but I take your point. I have no wish to speak further to either of the people concerned, but I would rather not be seen in the way they sought to portray me. Obviously I have no control over that, and people will think what they want. I wasn't intending to mention it again beyond the one jokey comment. The sheep are my witnesses!
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The thing is it's like a weed the way it spreads so it's not rare, one neighbour gave me a nickname for it but didn't know the proper name and i forget the nickname, it has silvery green leaves, pink flowers on stems which grow between 12-18" tall. when it dies back the leaves lighten in colour but not by much. I was astounded non of the garden centres knew what it was.
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Without any sort of scale ..Saxifraga maybe, some of which is known as London Pridegessa wrote: ↑Sun Jun 21, 2020 7:10 pm The thing is it's like a weed the way it spreads so it's not rare, one neighbour gave me a nickname for it but didn't know the proper name and i forget the nickname, it has silvery green leaves, pink flowers on stems which grow between 12-18" tall. when it dies back the leaves lighten in colour but not by much. I was astounded non of the garden centres knew what it was.
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Cheers Sara that works ...That is our local Sparrowhawk sat on the fence just outside the window after finishing off a collared dove main course on our lawn....killed a few birds round here
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Out of the bedroom window last year, draining the pond at that point so it's a mess (Even more of a mess at the moment but the newts are happy) and more than half the garden not visible here as it goes back another 60-70 foot after the path you can see.
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Saxifraga has pink flowers
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Our London Pride has purple flowers, same height as the saxifraga, greenery same sort of height too but a lot paler green
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Is that an orchid of some kind?
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Early purples, I think. Actually quite common in the dales.
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We've, so far, had fledge from our garden -
Wrens - was sat down the bottom drinking tea when a wren on it maiden flight, still with some old downy feathers, had to stop off for a breather on the table, tiny thing about 2/3rds the size of it parents - they nest in our hazel hedgerow
Nuthatches - 4/5 babies lined up on the shed roof at one point
Song Thrush - 3 young fledged we reckon, fun birds to watch hopping all over the garden looking for slugs/worms/snails etc
Blackbirds, we get those every year. They nest in the conifer hedge
and for the first time ever - Goldfinches, we saw two very young birds with the parents in one of the many watering points in our garden
Long Tailed tits, walking down the garden there they were sat on a branch in the rhody
Wrens - was sat down the bottom drinking tea when a wren on it maiden flight, still with some old downy feathers, had to stop off for a breather on the table, tiny thing about 2/3rds the size of it parents - they nest in our hazel hedgerow
Nuthatches - 4/5 babies lined up on the shed roof at one point
Song Thrush - 3 young fledged we reckon, fun birds to watch hopping all over the garden looking for slugs/worms/snails etc
Blackbirds, we get those every year. They nest in the conifer hedge
and for the first time ever - Goldfinches, we saw two very young birds with the parents in one of the many watering points in our garden
Long Tailed tits, walking down the garden there they were sat on a branch in the rhody
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