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I have a small greenhouse in my garden and one day I saw a butterfly there. It was Lesser Purple Emperor (*Apatura ilia*), a beautiful and large butterfly, which in the case of the…

Autumn is a season of contrasting colors. On the one hand, it is getting dark, gray and rainy outside the window, and on the other hand, nature shows beautiful colors of leaves tha…

Autumn is slowly approaching. Then the birds prepare to migrate to warmer areas for the winter. One of such birds is a redstart that was breeding in a box in my garden. The photo…

The European peacock (*Aglais io*) is a very common butterfly in our country. It occurs in Europe and Asia. Its wingspan is about 5 cm. This butterfly is easily distinguished from …

In the photo, the most beautiful spider living in Poland, the wasp spider (*Argiope bruennichi*) from the Araneidae family, but only the female, which has characteristic yellow str…

Every year, at the end of summer, butterflies gradually prepare for wintering. Butterflies from the Rusalidae family hibernate as adults and therefore now eat a lot to survive the …

While working in my garden, I noticed a lot of butterflies, mainly peacock butterflies. I ran for my camera and managed to take the photo below. I really like this photo because o…

Autumn is slowly approaching, so the butterflies are very active, collecting various food and preparing for the hibernation phase. They still use sunny days to warm themselves. Th…

Helichrysum (Strawflower) has beautiful flowers of various colors. This is the second photo I took up close to this flower. This time it is red. [PL] Kocanka ogrodowa to piękne k…

While walking with my family in the nearby meadows, we collected some wild flowers. Of course, I took photos for you to see. 😀 The white one is yarrow (*Achillea millefolium*), a…

I planted strawflowers (helichrysums) in the garden, which are perfect for drying and for bouquets. They come in different colors: yellow, red, pink and purple. They have such an …

In such a hot summer as we have this year, it is worth taking care of water for the birds that visit our garden. I prepared a 15 cm diameter dish for them and poured a few stones …

While resting in the garden, I noticed a sparrow watching the area while sitting in a thuja, like a guard warning other sparrows against predators, e.g. the neighbor's cat. He pos…

Two years ago, wood pigeons (*Columba palumbus*) appeared in my garden, and this year a pair of these pigeons built a nest on a spruce tree, at a height of about 4 meters. It is …

The Red Admiral is a beautiful butterfly that I often see in my garden from May to October. It has a wingspan of about 6 cm, so it is large. Due to the black and orange colors of i…

I managed to take a photo of this butterfly. It is a fabriciana, probably an fabriciana adippe (*Argynnis adippe*), but I am not sure about it. He sat down on a garlic flower for a…

In my country (Poland) cacti do not grow, but we can grow them in pots. And my cactus has just bloomed. 😀 ![SC_2273-6.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/paweland/23u5Z…

Attention! I'm bragging 😅 My cacti are blooming again, which makes me extremely happy. Unfortunately, they have one drawback: they bloom only for one day (for me around June 15-20…

This is the prettiest photo of a male redstart I have ever taken in my garden. I am very pleased with this photo. 😀 This week, the young redstarts left their nest and flew away wi…

In my garden, a pair of redstarts built a nest in an old nesting box. Yesterday the last two young birds left the nest. One of them immediately hid in the vine leaves. Fortunately,…