Richard
@rdfallis
Librarian, into films, books, and gardening ♾️
Growing eryngiums for the first time this year. Bees loving them! #plants #gardening #bees
Heat waves seem to be causing some early autumnal leaf colour changes in our rowan tree. Some welcome rain has been forecast 🤞🏻 #gardening #plants #trees #globalheating #climatechange
I grow nasturtiums primarily as sacrificial plants for bugs to eat, but they also look nice, bees love them, and they are tasty for humans, too. #gardening #plants #flowers
Atrocious, hastily-captured video of thrush hunting for molluscs in the lawn. #gardening #birds #wildlife
For the first time ever, thrushes are visiting our garden and feeding on snails and slugs. Lots of shattered snail remnants all over the place. I've only ever seen thrushes in big parks before so this is quite exciting for our scruffy wee backyard #gardening #birds #wildlife
Teasel grows like crazy in our back garden, though it requires a lot of propping up with bamboo canes. I love how little pools of water form among the leaves when it rains. #teasel #plants #gardening
Got a baby rowan tree last year, that is producing abundant flowers this year. Bees if multiple species are loving it - saddlebags filled to bursting with pollen! 🐝🐝🐝 #gardening #bees #spring
Micro moth on a hart's tongue fern, likely Psychoides filicivora. #moths #bugs #gardening #plants
Aerial view of the back garden, trying to make it as green and varied as possible, with a good number of native species and scruffy corners where "weeds" are left to do their thing. #gardening #plants
This magnolia never flowered while kept in a pot, but it has started doing so since I put it in the ground in a raised bed. Looks like a bumper crop of blooms this year 🌸🌸🌸🌸 #gardening #plants #flowers
Baby fatsia japonica leaf looking like a little alien hand 👽🖖🏻 #gardening #plants #aliens