The LDGA Year 2024

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9July2024

A review of the LDGA year

A gallery of photographs recounting some the things we’ve seen and done during 2024.

A carpet of purple crocuses

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A clump of purple crocuses with orange centres

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A carpet of purple crocuses

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Early spring crocuses by the side of the Baldock Road

A clump of purple crocuses with orange centres

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A carpet of purple crocuses

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White and pink newly formed oak galls

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Brown mature oak galls with tiny exit holes

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Brown mature oak gall with tiny exit hole together with a pair of oak leaves

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Oak galls by the side of the Greenway near Willian

The Handkerchief Tree with green leaves and white bracts

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Pitcher plant over water with 6 pitchers hanging downj

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11/5/24 – Outing to Oxford Botanic Gardens. Read about the visit

A barn owl

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A Tengmelms owl

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A White Faced Scops owl

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Owl visitors to our May meeting.

Thanks to Lindsay for these 3
and John for the montage below.

A montage of 3 owls left is a Chaco owl, centre is a White Faced Scops owl, right is a Barn owl

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A mass of hail stones on a garden chair

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Young plants covered in hail stones

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10/06/24 – What’s happened to summer?

Painted metal sculpture of a peacock standing on a post in a cottage garden - side view

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Painted metal sculpture of a peacock standing on a post in a cottage garden - close-up

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Painted metal sculpture of a peacock standing on a post in a cottage garden - rear view

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Webmasters visit to National Trust properties in Kent

White, blue, yellow and red wild flowers on a bank

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Large rose bush with small white flowers tumbling over a stone wall

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A single pink rose bloom surrounded by 5 or 6 buds

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A large blue and yellow iris bloom

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Painted metal sculpture of a robin standing on a fork handle

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A painted coiled metal model of a bee suspended from thread

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A painted coiled metal model of a bee suspended from metal hexagon - bee hives in the background

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A painted coiled metal model of a bee suspended from thread

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A very tall pink foxglove

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A clump of 6 light pink common spotted orchids

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A single light pink common spotted orchid

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Bob Flowerdew with hands clasped

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Bob Flowerdew addressing the audience - view from back

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Bob Flowerdew miming digging or hoeing

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20/6/24 – Evening with Bob Flowerdew at the Central Methodist Church

Read about the evening

Bob Flowerdew with arms stretched out in front of him answering a question

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Bob Flowerdew with arms stretched out in front of him answering a question

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A metal pidgeon sculpture on tall tree stump with crimson clematis around

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A multi-petaled flower bloom, orange at edges fading pink in centre

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Deep pink lychnis with yellow Californian poppies

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30/6/24 – Letchworth Open Gardens
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A long thin rill with aquatic plants flanked by topiary

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A single dark pink rose bloom

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Pyramid shaped yew

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8/7/24 – Visit to Gotha Gardens near Ashwell.

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A bed of purple lavender

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Topiary hedging beside the rill

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A cluster of light orange dahlia blooms

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A deep pink water lily bloom

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A light orange flower

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More pyramid shaped yews

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A globe shaped sculpture on plinth in front of rustic shed

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A single red rose bloom

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A globe shaped sculpture on plinth

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Read about the visit

A vase of purple sweet peas

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A cauliflower

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A pot plant with tall pink flowers

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13/7/24 – Summer Show
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Three people standing at a table under the gazebo on the grass, members seated behind

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Members seated around tables, red, pink and white flower in foreground

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Members seated around tables, viewed through a frame of bean canes

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18/7/24 – Members’ Garden Party
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Hospice cheque presentation.

Four lady organisers with food laid out in front

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A large size cheque for £700 being presented to a lady from GHHC

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A spiders nest full of babies in a ragwort plant

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The underside of a Jersey Tiger Moth resting on a window pane

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A black and yellow striped caterpillar on yellow ragwort plant

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Knitted flowers etc at Weston Show

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A collection of vegetables on a tray at Weston Show

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Vases of mixed flowers at Weston Show

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8/9/24 – Weston Show

Apples and other fruit at Weston show

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Dahlias at Weston Show

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Prize winning dahlias

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A closer inspection of some flower exhibits

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A long bench of vegetable exhibits

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14/9/24 – Autumn Show
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A Fairy Parasol fungi

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Light brown wavy fungus with hairs on upper surface - possibly Hairy Curtain Crust

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White fungi growing in short spikes - possibly Candlesnuff or Stag’s Horn.

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Dew on a spiders web

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A brown hairy caterpillars

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