This beautiful specimen of Lucanus cervus (male) (European stag beetle) was walking quietly on my lawn. I had plenty of time to take his picture from several angles. Who says a well-tended garden and lawn are bad for biodiversity?
Some of today’s blooms in Papi Jo’s garden, just before the weather changed, with rain!
This morning, a little macro safari by the river, for a change from the garden. I met the “usual suspects” there…
I’ve had G. Rozanne in my garden for quite a few years. I’m somewhat disappointed with its lack of vigour and flowering. Recently I went to my fav. nursery to purchase a couple of new specimens, with the hope to get more flowers in the G. Rozanne patch. They didn’t…
Papi Jo’s garden is strictly an ornamental garden, even if it has had some potato plants in the past. At the moment, however, there are 2 cereal plants growing at the foot of the ‘Evereste’ apple tree. Birdseed left over from the apple tree in winter. One is bearded, the…
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