This week’s perennial veg stir-fry with soba (buckwheat noodles), Japanese style contained the following (roughly left to right in the picture):Nettles / stornesle (Urtica dioica)Burdock / storborre roots […]
Birds / Butterflies and moths / Nettles
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Don’t cut those nettles, share them with wildlife
We may know that some of are most spectacular butterflies like red admiral (admiral), painted lady (tistelsommerfugl), comma (hvit C), small tortoiseshell (neslesommerfugl) and peacock (dagpåfugløye) may lay […]
Butterflies and moths / Nettles
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Admiral on Urtica kiovensis
Back from my two week stay in England for my dad’s funeral (he was 97 and still growing leeks from seed; I planted them posthumously!) and being with […]
Butterflies and moths / Insects / Nettles
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Check your nettles!
Making nettle water (fertiliser) this afternoon and I checked if there were any butterfly / moth larvae under the leaves, but I missed one and this beauty floated […]
Nettles
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New nettles
Two new nettles in the garden this year but neither have shown any signs of flowering.. Post Views: 84