It’s part of the plan. I live nearby Wageningen University which has developed a treatment. They do the analysis in a lab, another company does the treatment and once done, they do another test.
The treatment is basically a ‘jacket’ for the tree which stays on 42 deg Celsius for 48 hours. This kills the bacteria. I noticed the infection last year for the first time and after the hot summer weeks getting close to 40 deg I had the impression that the infection reduced.
Yes. Since we bought our house I’ve every year seen hedgehogs. We are doing a major garden renovation and it’s great to see that even now there is one.
We put two hedgehog houses in our gardens,for the last couple of years we’ve had one regular visitor,but over this last winter we’ve witnessed upto three hogs.
We’ve also set up wildlife cameras and a security “ live” camera which has filmed two males doing battle over the one female. Only one of the houses has been occupied,but we have caught them mating,so possibly we might see some hoglets shortly.
We don’t have any 'roos but most other things - Deer, wild boar, coypu, stoats, weasel,fox, badger, Hedgehogs, dormouse that live in trees, squirrels, pine marten and field marten, hare around here but few rabbits. That’s just within a few hundred yards of me. Further afield a few wolves up in the mountains. Lots of birds of prey red and black kites, snake and golden eagle, kestrel, buzzards etc. Most unusual to me is this fella
We are lucky here, second least populated area in France. Bird is a Hoopoe, common in Europe apparently. Not very social so you hear them more than see them and they are loud sounding something like a cuckoo. They eat a poisonous caterpillar which we have on some of our pine trees so we get to see them particularly at this time of year as the caterpillars move down the trunk of the trees where they have spent the winter, and crawl in a long snake like line in to holes in the ground to form chrysalis and eventually emerge later in the year as moths.
Congratulations to Australia - you’re through to the Eurovision final!
Nodded off on the sofa watching the political Question Time show last night - when I woke at around 5am I saw Hannah Waddingham was one of the hosts for the second heat on iPlayer - I’ll now definitely be watching:
Thanks @Alley_Cat I’m so excited that we’ve made the final I can hardly sleep.
As for Hannah’s hips (and other features) I’m not quite sure what they have in common with gardening other than any comment I could/would make I’d require a shovel to get me out of the hole I’d just dug myself into.
