Thank you BenCotto, there were many deleted images before I got that snap! Thank you too Bee witched, I'm in The Netherlands hence the name! Thank you bullfinch. And Lyn, how right you are, the bees just love it - it pops up all over my garden and, just like geranium phaeum, it's often in the wrong spot.............
Love your photo. Goldfinches will take the seeds out of lavender heads if you don't deadhead them until spring. I'm a lazy cow anyway so that's my excuse.
@tulipmania What type of Agastache do you have, please? I am trying to find new plants to add to my garden that both the bees and the birds will like, and these look like they might be just the ticket. Thank you.
I never see birds in my garden eat anything that's growing, unless it's growing for US to eat - my cherry trees spend the summer wrapped in net curtains to keep off the jackdaws. I guess "my" birds are so urban, they've lost the skill of foraging and think food only comes from feeders. Goldfinches I find are particularly ungrateful. When I first moved here, I bought nyjer seed and a special feeder for it; the goldfinches came, but ignored the nyjer and just ate the mix that all the birds eat. Then I grew teasels specially for them; again, they came, but I never saw one of them feeding from a teasel. I'm left to wage war on the teasels' numerous offspring.
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Great name @tulipmania .... and welcome to the forum.
Bee x
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
Thank you too Bee witched, I'm in The Netherlands hence the name!
Thank you bullfinch.
And Lyn, how right you are, the bees just love it - it pops up all over my garden and, just like geranium phaeum, it's often in the wrong spot.............
P.S. Wonderful photograph!
'My' blue tits are currently doing something similar with the Mahonia flowers, although I think it's more likely to be insects tucked in them.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@fidgetbones don’t forget the ‘winter structural interest’ argument for not bothering your backside to cut stuff back!😂