Butterflies under the wheels

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UK's butterfly populations got under pressure through the great weather of last year's summer.
Gardeners can help by bedding plants that will bloom to provide the butterflies with food.
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..and omit poisoning the caterpillars, of course.
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I remember reading somewhere that the growing tendency for Brits to concrete over their gardens (or put gravel over them, or otherwise getting rid of a lot of the vegetation) is having a severe negative effect on insect life, and therefore on the birds that eat the insects.

I like insects. :(
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..moreover, mentioning carbon dioxides: Plants "breathe it in", and "exhale"O2. So if there actually the influence of CO2 on the climate, here's something people could do: Put one or two real trees in their gardens (apples from your own garden are phantastic, for example!), allow hedges to grow etc.
And then, it's not a matter of liking insects or not: We depend on them. :wink:
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eotunun wrote:So if there actually the influence of CO2 on the climate,
There is.

I know it looks a bit like 'argument from authority' but the consensus of climatologists is that human-generated CO2 is causing global warming. It's pretty much not being argued by anyone any more -- other than the oil companies and their hired hands.
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So: Ladies and Gentlemen: Get your spades, stand straight and center! Present the tree!
Aaaand:

Plant the tree!
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We have a lavender bush in our front garden that usually attracts hundreds of bees and butterflies during the summer. It's not really big enough for a proper tree, unfortunately.
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Bushes and hedges are great for starters!
Every plant that drops its leafes in autumn helps battling the erosion of the groud, by the way. I read that especialy the east cost of Ol'Blighty suffered quite a bit loss of land.
..just to prevent there is only the rocks of the western parts and a corroding platform of occupied Sea Land remaining in the long run.
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markfiend wrote:We have a lavender bush in our front garden that usually attracts hundreds of bees and butterflies during the summer. It's not really big enough for a proper tree, unfortunately.
Not to detract from this most important of threads, but I just wanted to say - Theres nothing wrong with a little Bush ;-)
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It's quite big and a bit straggly to be honest.

I'm not helping. ;D
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I've got a fig tree in my back garden, at least I think they are figs
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DerekR wrote:I've got a fig tree in my back garden, at least I think they are figs
Mrs. R said so, I presume? ;D
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