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laburnum

the laburnum tree is in full flower. the hum of bees when i'm standing under the foliage is wonderful. it's very loud and at first i thought it must be the sound of traffic on the a13, but no. it's happy bees foraging and pollinating www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/how-to-grow-lab...

 

www.buzzaboutbees.net/why-do-bees-buzz.html#:~:text=Durin...(sonification)%2C,can%20collect%20the%20pollen3.

During buzz pollination called sonification, the muscles in the thorax are contracted very fast to produce a vibration that shakes the pollen grains from flower anthers, so that the bee can collect the pollen.

 

a decline in the numbers of uk insect life www.buglife.org.uk/get-involved/surveys/bugs-matter/

 

in the foreground are the leaves of the hibiscus tree, centre the red flowers of the geum and to the right a red rose 'red splendour' rvroger.co.uk/rosa-red-splendour/

the side fence is beginning to cover but a long way to go. when it does in that corner there will be ivy, yellow berried pyracantha, yellow flowered forsythia, yellow and green leaved eunonymous, and white flowered ceonotheous

the back fence will soon be covered with the same yellow berried pyracantha 'golden charmer' www.jparkers.co.uk/pyracantha-golden-charm-0001801c?wgu=2... and ivy

 

for many years my garden was a shrubbery flic.kr/p/Lhv9ag which i loved. a picket fence covered in an ivy hedge coming down in a storm flic.kr/p/2gnCyih meant that over time changes had to happen flic.kr/p/2mn2x8a i'll be glad when the trellis is covered in honeysuckle and jasmine. that's the plan ...

 

www.flickr.com/groups/gardening_is_my_hobby/ helpful for ideas. thank you for sharing

 

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