Our latest newsletter is out this week and it’s all about homegrown happiness. It’s autumn and this month our newsletter focuses on Houseplant’s, growing Dairy Primula from seed as well as highlighting Plants for Paws 🌸 Read it online. eckards.co.za/newsletter/ 🌸 #eckardsgarden #gardennews
Side view, with the wings lifted. The underside of the near wing is grey-brown, with dark speckles. It is sitting on lavender.
Top view, showing the white border around the blue wings. On a rose bush.
Front/top view. The upper wing looks a slightly darker blue to the lower from this angle. Sitting on some round, green seeds or berries.
Flittery critter didn’t want to pose long, but I got some quick snaps. Common Blue butterfly, I think. #butterflies #insects #GardenNews
Grown from free seeds from Fort Bragg Seed Library my snap peas are over 8 feet tall.
In other news:
My sweet snap pea plant is now over 8 feet tall! 💚🫛 #gardennews
#fromseed #growyourownfood
Ladybird on a leaf, standing on its hind legs to seemingly reach up to some tiny white flowers.
Woodlouse on a white brick wall.
First rosebud of the season, considering its options.
Unknown plant with tiny white (or maybe really really pale blue) flowers. The dandelions behind are very large in comparison. Behind those, out of focus in the background, sits a black cat.
#GardenNews #insects #ladybird Anyone know what the tiny white flowers are? #Bloomscrolling
A greyish dark briwn butterfly. it has splotches of pale orange or cream, some of which contain a black circle with a white dot in the middle.
Oodles of tiny honey-brown insects. I dunno, aphids or something, on some small leaves of a rose bush. which has seen better days.
The sane wild cherry tree I posted the other day, with a lot more white blossom. The sky’s still blue.
The top of a wild cherry tree, coming up to full blossom. Blue sky behind.
Blossom, bee-fly, hoverflies, butterflies, bumble bee. #GardenNews
A tiny bud on a rose bush. A few new young leaves, not yet green, are either side of it.
Hey Bud, how’s it going? #GardenNews #bloomscrolling
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