sloth
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Indeed! Starting to resemble a giraffe...
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I think it's largely a cultural attitude that any grassy area should be uniformly short and green. I get jokey comments from friends and family that my lawn 'looks a state and needs a good mow'. Why do people feel the need to make nature all straight lines and uniform? It's the very nature of natural flowing shapes and colours which makes a walk in the wild so refreshing and calming...
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Excellent post, I hardly ever have to cut my 'lawns', and they attract all manor of bugs and birds- they wouldn't look right in a formal stately home garden though!
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Ahhh! It's cod wood all over again!
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Apologies for the poor camera phone photos, but I was chuffed to find this unusual dark variation in colour of a male field cuckoo bumblebee, Bombus campestris.
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It seems they don't always load for me either actually, same for some video links. It seems hit and miss...
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Just watched the whole thing, very nicely done...
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Brilliant, and in classic Attenborough style. A true legend!
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I hadn't tried clicking on the picture Ian! Yes, when I click on the broken box the pics do load up - I never had to before though. Odd...
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On the android app (possibly since the last update) I can't view pics in threads anymore, just get a broken box like below. I do see images in the thread preview still though. Any ideas? Edit; the pic below I tried posting from the app, and I can't see that either...
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Pictures definitely needed here! I say go for it, I would...
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I wouldn't bother shrouding it. I'd be very interested to know what treatment was used to make it 'focus on fixing itself', and why that should have made its leaves smaller though...
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Very nice indeed, and a lovely gift. Almost a shame to ever use it!
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Could be this... https://www.forestry.gov.uk/fr/infd-7b3d3r
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Nice sycamore, I know they're loathed by many but I kinda like a big open grown one...
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I bet it was proper stinky, must'a sphincter high heaven! Did you feel the need to give your (nasal) cavity an enema? Distasteful talk for a tree forum, I know. Perhaps we should go back to taking pictures of our log piles, and discussing whether or not they're safe for children to play around with...
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Definitely the case, many times over!
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Good shout. Spring flower, summer eating and autumn colours...
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What about an apple on dwarf stock? I have a 'tickled pink' in the ground, lovely deep red flowers. The apples are supposed to be red through too, but my kids picked them all last year before they were ripe!
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Where are you wanting to put them? What is visible behind/around them from their principal viewing position?
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I don't know much about grafting to be honest, and it's hard to make out from the pics. Are there definitely two clearly different leaf types from the same stem? Best guess would be two individuals growing from what is mistaken for one base/stem, can that be ruled out for sure? If not, as said a rootstock sprouting on a grafted tree, or a cultivar reverting. Or some species can have very varied leaves on one tree, like eucalyptus and mulberry, but I'm not convinced about that here...
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Look a little like lime leaves, not a sycamore. Is it definitely a tree even?
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A picture says a thousand words...
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Ta muchly, so many options to consider...
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The Romans, it was a bad attempt at humour as they were long gone 250 years ago. Sorry!
