Swansea match, is this reasonable behaviour .....

I just a call them campanula

Harsh.

So they're a native blue bell phenotype. That means it's environment (changing climate, introduction of other species ect) has played a part in tweaking it's dna(mutating it), in this case and this plant making the flowers white. It's not true albino unless it's stalks are white, it's very rare in any plant and they don't live long as they lack the chlorophyll in it's leaves to survive and photosynthesise.

 

We could do with you and your lass, down here, for a week.

The head gardener has been here 30 years, from when he was 16, and is blinkered to doing things 'how they've always been done'.

I don't have time to research what we can plant here, soil type, etc ..... drives me crazy.

So we end up with the same old boring lavender, dahlias, etc

 

Well have to pop down sometime fella. Once this house **** is sorted and George gets her celiac diagnoses we can start getting more of life outside this bloody town.

 

Is that a kind of seasonal plant .... if it is we'll have some for the borders

 

Ya daft bugger.

 

Honestly Bri how bad is Smug even I know they are for hanging baskets.

 

You're just as daft. It's a succulent. Wack it in a terrarium!

 

This has nothing to do with this thread but the 4 ducks I reared last year now come and bang on the window each night until i go out and feed them but I have a trough of lettuce on the window sill and they smash the buggers to hell.

 

Will the terrapins not eat them?

 

Are you gomna eat the little buggers?

 

All round to Rooch's for a sizzling duck barbie this weekend!

 

I once saw a duck eat a frog



Its groundhog day. Wheres monty.

 

Isn't it amazing what characters they have mate

We had a call from the wildlife rescue place yesterday asking if we'll take 21 mallard ducklings, two different nests where they'd been left.

We've knocked up a pen, that stretches over the stream, so we'll take them in and see what we can do.

It's lovely to have all these animals but heartbreaking if you lose any .... but, that's life eh?

 

I was going to download the vids but I am on holiday on top of a fell and the signal on my phone is nil.

 

To be fair mate being farming all my life seeing them die or killing them doesn't bother me a great deal but I only kill what i eat now so i wouldn't kill these ducks as i class them as pets. I have mellowed no end in my old age.

 

Helped you with your typo mate.

 

I am happy if you don't mind them knowing now come back to bed.

 

Only if you let me have a go this time.

 

It's hard for us because we take in all kinds of rescued animals.

When you get a little gosling in who fights for his life but doesn't make it you feel it.

We hatched 4 goslings last year and lost two ..... the females are both sitting on eggs now so we're hoping to boost the numbers.

Losing 1 from 3 would be a blow but, if we can get up to around 20, it wouldn't be as bad if we lost one or two.

 

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