Laban Dance Centre – Bulbs and Bees -IYB
A cold damp winters day visit to the Laban Dance Centre. Our first green roof visit of the year. This roof is the original rubble or brown roof. We carried a couple of bags of crocii bulbs to plant...
View ArticleBlue, Sue and Yellow – A Rocket and a Butterfly
A urban wasteland now a local nature reserve is covered it what many would describe as WEEDS! But the crucifers with their yellow flowers attract a range of wildlife. Nectar seeking bees and...
View ArticleMy #treeyear 3 – Late February
Today the first warm sunny day warmed the ground beneath my lime and my horse chestnut. The petals of snowdrops and crocuses openned to the sun and in turn the bees came. A white-tailed bumblebee was...
View ArticleA Splash Blue in the Shadow of St. Paul’s
We planted the Muscari bulbs on the green roof at Evershed’s three years ago. The bulbs were part of a scheme to increase the biodiversity potential of the basic sedum blanket green roof that lies in...
View ArticleHurricane Tree damage and White Comfrey – my #treeyear
I moved to my house in 1988 – just under a year after the 1987 hurricane. That great weather event downed many a tree across S.E. England. I found out last week that the small patch of herbs beneath my...
View ArticleWatering Honey Bees on a green roof in London
Last summer there were two hives on the green roof at Evershed’s. A third has been in place for a week or so and is awaiting some bees to take up residence. Green roofs are relatively harsh places....
View ArticleThe wasp and the coriander
The tall coriander plants had turned to flower. Small white collections of nectar stores high above the garden in the Camargue. A single Polistes wasp seemed to be collecting nectar from the flowers....
View ArticleVeronica by the Ravensbourne in Lewisham
On Sunday we took a walk along the Ravensbourne in Ladywell, Lewisham. Next week the southern section of the Ladywell Park will be launched. I want to go and see what was just mud, mud, and mess the...
View ArticleCarder Bee on Black horehound (Ballota nigra)
The Ballota patch at Canvey Point over the weekend was also visited by one of the Carder bees. It is difficult to tell if it is humilis or muscorum, although humilis is definitely one of the rare bees...
View ArticleGreen roof plants go in, the Hummingbird Hawk-moth arrives
We had only just planted the wildflower plugs when the Hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatrum) appeared on the green roof. The fact that nothing was actually in flower did not put the hungry...
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