OnTheMarket.com looks at why autumn is the perfect time to sell your property and highlights what potential buyers and sellers should consider. Generally the market tends to be stronger in the spring and then picks up again in the late summer and early autumn. The UK’s largest independent estate agent, haart, explains that your property […]
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Few things divide opinion among homeowners as much as new-build properties. OnTheMarket.com examines the pros and cons. For some, new-builds are the antithesis of period properties that embody British architecture at its finest, from Regency terraces to thatched cottages. For others, they represent 21st-century living at its very best, with light, airy rooms, modern gadgets […]
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Crook, County Durham: By chewing their way directly into the nectaries of flowers, the thieving insects circumvent the laborious pollination mechanism
The first hint that there were thieves in the garden appeared in the columbines. This plant’s common name is derived from the Latin columba, a dove, because its quintet of florets is reminiscent of an inward-facing circle of doves, with petals forming their wings and long nectar spurs resembling the birds’ necks and bowed heads.
Holes had been chewed in every head. The culprits were a few nectar-robbing bumblebees. They should pollinate the flowers by hanging awkwardly underneath, showered with pollen while probing upwards into the nectar spurs with their long tongues. These ones had devised an easier route to a reward, by chewing a feeding hole in the top of each nectary: now they could forage 10 times faster.
Continue reading...Crook, County Durham: By chewing their way directly into the nectaries of flowers, the thieving insects circumvent the laborious pollination mechanism
The first hint that there were thieves in the garden appeared in the columbines. This plant’s common name is derived from the Latin columba, a dove, because its quintet of florets is reminiscent of an inward-facing circle of doves, with petals forming their wings and long nectar spurs resembling the birds’ necks and bowed heads.
Holes had been chewed in every head. The culprits were a few nectar-robbing bumblebees. They should pollinate the flowers by hanging awkwardly underneath, showered with pollen while probing upwards into the nectar spurs with their long tongues. These ones had devised an easier route to a reward, by chewing a feeding hole in the top of each nectary: now they could forage 10 times faster.
Continue reading...Fr Julian Dunn (Letters, 1 July) may be stirred to profane language about the dearth of poetry in the 100 best books for the summer piece, but he missed Raymond Antrobus’s The Perseverance in the section headed “Prize winners”. More would of course be welcome. How about a little Luke Wright to liven up an evening?
Tom Rank
Glossop, Derbyshire
• A poetry book for the summer? Fr Julian Dunn need look no further than any of Connie Bensley’s excellent collections.
Penny Brown
Lewes, East Sussex
Fr Julian Dunn (Letters, 1 July) may be stirred to profane language about the dearth of poetry in the 100 best books for the summer piece, but he missed Raymond Antrobus’s The Perseverance in the section headed “Prize winners”. More would of course be welcome. How about a little Luke Wright to liven up an evening?
Tom Rank
Glossop, Derbyshire
• A poetry book for the summer? Fr Julian Dunn need look no further than any of Connie Bensley’s excellent collections.
Penny Brown
Lewes, East Sussex
Average value of a home in the capital down 2.6% over past two years as rest of UK rises
House prices have dropped in London for the eighth quarter in a row pushing the average value of a home in the capital down 2.6% over the last two years to £465,722.
Figures for the three months to June from Nationwide showed London and the south-east were the worst performers in a national housing market that has managed to keep growing through the past three years of Brexit turmoil, but only at a modest pace.
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