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Dermestidae?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermestidae?wprov=sfti1# The wee blighters!

Orange Hawkweed

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/13/the-orange-hawkweed-is-a-fiery-foxy-presence-in-the-garden

Dionaea muscipula

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If you have fresh fruit in your home, you’ll get fruit flies. Big ugly house flies and their kin find their way in. Not to mention the bloody fungus gnats which can kill houseplants.  This one was just over £20. It’s gotten a bit knocked about in transit, but will recover. D. Muscipula, out of its growing medium, resembles bulbs or onions, so it’s easy to propagate by division.  Two key things: they must get watered every day, otherwise the foliage goes black and dies. And growing medium must be very low nutrition

Motherwort

The funny thing is, chickens leave it alone. So it grows quite tall, self seeds, and the chooks have  a jungle to play in.

Google Won the Battle

I  considered making a blog from my Flickr account: that was not convenient .  So heigh-ho, but here we still are.

Still Here

 And I’ve been here a long time.