Birds, Bees and Babies

I won’t dwell on my garden too much this month, because it’s mainly scorched – it’s been so hard to keep things alive. I’m not boasting, but I think I may have mentioned, we have 8 water butts and they are all empty. I have to say, I love the hot weather, but we do …

Where do bees go? (and other bits & bobs)

First an update – following on from last month’s tale of caterpillar carnage,  I thought you might be interested to see this photo my sister sent me of parasitoid wasp cocoons on her window! Gruesome eh? Anyway, moving on – I was admiring Victoria’s lavender bed a few weeks ago and we were marvelling at the …

The bees are back in town!

If you’ve been reading my ramblings for a while, you may remember that last year I wrote about the bees that were mining in my back garden. If you’re new to me, or you want a reminder, you can read about them here. To cut a long story short, I didn’t think they would ever …