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Up Close and Purple

Alan Cole — Tue, 24 May 2022 16:28:23 +0000

It’s all gone to pinks and purples in the garden now. So, I thought it was time to get up close and purple with some of the flowers! I checked in on the bees today too and all seems well. They are of course loving the chives at the moment.

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Beehaving in the Garden

Alan Cole — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 06:24:04 +0000

‘Beehaving’? If you remember from my last post about the bees they had been ‘mis-beehaving’. I had performed an artificial split only for the half without the queen to be a little lax in creating a queen cell while the haf with the queen swarmed anyway leaving no queen cell behind. I think my actions have helped...

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Orchid Assortment

Alan Cole — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 05:35:41 +0000

Well, Sunday was a fairly dark, dreary and very wet day. Not much of a day really, but it was brightened by an orchid walk in the dunes. Led by Juliet Regan who we already knew from Beekeeping it was an interesting introduction to the world of orchids. There was quite a good turn out considering...

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Garden Flowers

Alan Cole — Sat, 04 Jun 2016 19:45:40 +0000

Just a collection of some of the flowers in our garden at the moment.

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