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In the

Garden

with David

Williams
spread is predictable. Pulling it out
can also stop its progress. Certain through to the beginning of June. honeydew on a shelf around a plant
pot. Thankfully there weren't too
Last year during the first lockdown
butterflies as well as pollinators love the weather was glorious. As I many and a finger and thumb dealt
it so there are benefits of leaving it write this in early June, there are with them. Plants which have been
arden pests come started to nibble some Cerastium to grow. no flowers on the foxgloves, they attacked need to be checked more
in all shapes and in full view of my window. The This hare was really bold and are only just showing buds, while than once as eggs may well have
sizes. This year I'm cheek of it! These plants can be didn't mind me being just the other last year they were flowering by been laid and more aphids could
Gexperiencing a large thought of as weeds, they spread side of the glass. It must have known May. The weather does have a emerge to cause problems. Regular
influx of aphids or greenfly as easily so a little grazing helps it was safe with me in there. I'm big influence on our gardens and observations need to be carried out.
they are commonly known. keep them under control. I like wondering if it was the same one what they look like. All of that bad I'm looking forward to seeing
Young leaves are curling the white flowers and silver-grey who watched me vacuum the lounge weather during spring this year my visiting gardener prune some
on honeysuckle, roses and leaves which contrast nicely some time ago. It was like being on doesn't look like it stopped the more of my Cerastium so it doesn't
gooseberry plants. These insects with other plants all of which hare TV it must have been very well aphids being abundant. Just the get out of hand. I hope it doesn't
can be sprayed off or squished are alpines or rockery plants entertained by the amount of time opposite by what I can see. It's the start fancying any more of my more
between finger and thumb. Not which I'm growing between it was staring at the window. I wrote young new sappy growth that these precious plants or anything from the
so the large pests and that's the paving to create a rockery about that at the time. insects love. It's not only outdoor fruit and veg beds. It doesn't come
what this is all about. terrace. Cerastium can also be Looking through my garden plants which need to be checked into the garden regularly, there can
I was having lunch sitting in controlled through pruning, this photographs has made me realise for these insects as with windows be many months between visits, it
my lounge looking out over the hare was saving me a job. Having how far the garden is behind open our houseplants can also be prefers the surrounding fields. After
garden when a face appeared it planted between the cracks of compared to last year. This year targeted. These too need to be it had nibbled for about ten minutes
from under the hedging. The crazy paving means that it can we had a terrible cold, wet and checked. The first thing I knew of an it disappeared through the hedging
hare came onto the terrace and only spread along the gaps so its sometimes snowy spring right indoor aphid attack was seeing sticky once more.

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