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Nature thread

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I though it might be nice to have a thread that we can take into the summer and beyond, as the Spring thread will soon be redundant.

Please remember not to upload an image in the same post as words or it might break the thread - please add your words by replying to the image.

Thank you.

Yesterday  sent me down a rabbit hole when she mentioned this book on the 3 Good Things thread:

https://lithub.com/a-book-to-conjure-nature-when-we-need-it-most/

I then looked at this book:

www.thelostwords.org/.../

The reason for the book made me sad:

“When the most recent edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary — widely used in schools around the world — was published, a sharp-eyed reader soon noticed that around forty common words concerning nature had been dropped. The words were no longer being used enough by children to merit their place in the dictionary. The list of these ‘lost words’ included acorn, adder, bluebell, dandelion, fern, heron, kingfisher, newt, otter, and willow. Among the words taking their place were attachment, blog, broadband, bullet-point, cut-and-paste, and voice-mail…."

Please add anything related to nature that interests you.

Thank you.

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  • I visited Mottisfont Abbey rose garden today.

    It's a large walled garden and is lovely.

    However, lots of roses weren't yet open hence it wasn't as packed as usual (which was a good thing).

    Walled gardens are very special.

    Does anyone else have a garden they like to visit, walled or not?

  • in reply to B

    I have been there in the past and it was lovely. I do love the smell of roses. We have one rose bush near our front door which is lovely to walk past, but still in bud. There are a few gardens nearby I love walking past when it is windy as it blows the perfume into the air.

  • in reply to Homebird

    I don't tend to visit other gardens, except on telly, but I've tried something different in my oranmental beds the last couple of years. I dig up a clump of weeds and either put a feature plant in its place, some kind of perrenial usually and/or sprinkle flower seeds randomly around the patch of new exposed soil and see what grows and self seeds. It's looking really good now, it's sort of letting the garden decide what it wants to grow, with minimal intervention from me.

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  • in reply to Homebird

    I don't tend to visit other gardens, except on telly, but I've tried something different in my oranmental beds the last couple of years. I dig up a clump of weeds and either put a feature plant in its place, some kind of perrenial usually and/or sprinkle flower seeds randomly around the patch of new exposed soil and see what grows and self seeds. It's looking really good now, it's sort of letting the garden decide what it wants to grow, with minimal intervention from me.

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    I saw a similar thing in a neighbour's garden a few years ago; a really colourful border with a huge range of flowers. He'd used a box of mixed flower seed box from a pound shop. I bought one from a local garden centre [more than a pound though !) and they're just sprouting. I do like your idea of adding a perennial as the focus plant. What are you using?