Thursday, 31 July 2025

Goldfinch Garden

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31 July 2015 at 09:02
I'll admit my front garden may appear to be a rampant mess of competing thuglike plants.  
But when I opened the curtains this morning there were three goldfinches feeding on the thistledown.
Hagrid  Ooh! I love Goldfinches!
Bentonbag  They nest in the back garden three doors down so there always seems to be a couple flirting about.  There were fledglings feeding on unripe pyrocanthus berries at the end of my back garden today.  It belongs to the garden over the back and is so vicious they never prune it so it's dozens of feet high now and the birds love it.
Faye  My lawn has stayed long and luxuriant this summer largely because a friend said the clover would be good for the bees.  She's right!  The lawn's abuzz with all sorts of bees and other pollinators, and once the clover flowers have died off I'll give it a short back and sides.
Bentonbag  I have my mower on the highest setting.  I don't have red clover but do have white clover and speedwell, as well as daisies, buttercups and many other little plants I don't know the name of.  I've also given up strimming.  Why should the edges have to look like something off a parade ground?


 

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