Rowena Millar Wildlife Gardening

Rowena Millar Wildlife Gardening Gardening by hand with nature in mind. Pruning, weeding, composting, planting. Habitat creation for bees, pond life, birds, bees and more. Nature diaries.

The garden and greenhouse are still producing lovely things
21/10/2022

The garden and greenhouse are still producing lovely things

Inside of a home-grown courgette. Rather pretty, don't you think?
23/09/2022

Inside of a home-grown courgette. Rather pretty, don't you think?

Found a sort of protective fleece (against cold, hot sun, slugs and fleece for the greenhouse that – although polyethyle...
23/09/2022

Found a sort of protective fleece (against cold, hot sun, slugs and fleece for the greenhouse that – although polyethylene rather than plant-based – is washable, should last for 5 years (or more indoors in the greenhouse) without tearing and shredding all over the place. It should also be recyclable after use, all being well.

My lean-to greenhouse was made well over two decades ago (by Andy and a couple of good friends) out of people's old greenhouses that they were taking down. It has thrown-away fridge shelves as the shelving/staging!

September's garden bee magnet in the sunny corner
23/09/2022

September's garden bee magnet in the sunny corner

Rain after sun has been good for the bean crop.
25/08/2022

Rain after sun has been good for the bean crop.

A bit of back garden
05/06/2022

A bit of back garden

No Mow May begins - although there are mown areas to walk through, mown on a high setting, plus patches of longer grass....
01/05/2022

No Mow May begins - although there are mown areas to walk through, mown on a high setting, plus patches of longer grass. The front garden 'mini-meadow' has produced some hay for the guinea pigs from last year!

Extraordinary: just found a Violet Oil Beetle under fleece, apparently egg laying into a tray of coir compost containing...
16/03/2022

Extraordinary: just found a Violet Oil Beetle under fleece, apparently egg laying into a tray of coir compost containing newly planted tomato seeds on a heated mat on shelving in our greenhouse. I will keep an eye out for little triungulins seeking out flowers to climb and hitchhike on certain bee species later ...

Should I go back and try and find out whether it's actually a male? (apparently they have the most kinked antennae as well as being slimmer) or indeed an egg-laying female.

Flowers and plants in the unheated greenhouse at the end of January
05/02/2022

Flowers and plants in the unheated greenhouse at the end of January

Quite an amazing bounty of fruit, December and January 2022, thanks to Cornus capitata, the Himalayan dogwood/strawberry...
16/01/2022

Quite an amazing bounty of fruit, December and January 2022, thanks to Cornus capitata, the Himalayan dogwood/strawberry tree.

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Callington
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