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Just some of the things I have seen in my urban garden; I hope to get many more of the pictures I have taken on to Deb's Web.

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image: Badger (Meles meles), Gosport, Hampshire, UK
Badger, Meles meles
image: Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus), Gosport, Hampshire, UK
Garden Spider, Araneus diadematus
image: Greater European House Spider (Tegenaria duellica), Gosport, Hampshire, UK
Greater European House Spider, Tegenaria duellica
image: Paeonia (Peony) in my garden, Gosport, 14 May 2007. Link to Peony page
Paeonia, Peony
image: Hoverfly (Paragus sp?) on Veronica persica (Common Field-speedwell), 31st July 2006. Link to web page
a hoverfly, on Veronica persica
image: Pyrrhosoma nymphula (Large Red Damselfly) eyes, Gosport, Hampshire, UK, 5th June 2007
Large Red Damselfly, Pyrrhosoma nymphula
image: Large Red Damselfly (Pyrrhosoma nymphula) nymph, Gosport, Hampshire, UK
Large Red Damselfly, Pyrrhosoma nymphula
image: Azure Damselfly (Coenagrion puella), my garden, 7th May 2008, Gosport, Hampshire, UK
Azure Damselfly, Coenagrion puella
image: Sympetrum striolatum (Common Darter), adult, Gosport, Hampshire, UK
Common Darter, Sympetrum striolatum
image: Aeshna cyanea (Southern Hawker) eyes of male, Gosport, Hampshire, UK
Southern Hawker, Aeshna cyanea
image: Anax imperator (Emperor Dragonfly) head and thorax of newly emerged male, Gosport, Hampshire, UK
Emperor Dragonfly, Anax imperator
image: Dark Bush Crickets (Pholidoptera griseoaptera) adult male - link to more pics, in my garden, Gosport, Hampshire, UK
Dark Bush Crickets, Pholidoptera griseoaptera
image: Photo link to Millipedes & centipedes in my garden, Gosport, Hampshire, UK
Millipedes & centipedes, Uniramia
image: Rana temporia (Common Frog) in my pond, Gosport, 21 February 2007. Link to My Pond
My Pond, with Common Frog, Rana temporia
image: Photo link to Redstart in my garden, Gosport, Hampshire, UK, 18th September 2008
Redstart, Phoenicurus phoenicurus
image: Photo link to Blackbirds, male, and female, in my garden, Gosport, Hampshire, UK, January 2009
Blackbirds, Turdus merula
image: Photo link to House Sparrow in my garden, Gosport, Hampshire, UK, 14th February 2009
House Sparrow, Passer domesticus
Link to page with composite picture of various species found in my garden in Gosport, Hampshire on 1st January 2008.
Various species, my garden 1st Jan 2008
Link to page pictures of insects found in my garden in Gosport, Hampshire.
Insects in my garden
 

The Bee Gallery and the Hoverfly Gallery and the Ladybird Gallery all have many photographs taken in my garden.

About my garden

My garden is fairly ordinary, medium sized and urban, it has too much concrete, and two fairly basic ponds, it is more or less as it was when I moved in, I have done very little apart from removing 2 very large shrubs and several of 36 fir trees, which would have totally swamped everything, and planting a dwarf apple & a dwarf cherry tree, several Redcurrant bushes and some rhubarb.

Most introductions have either blown in, arrived via bird visitors, or come from unwanted specimens I have brought home to identify and thrown into the garden. I have been amazed at the diversity of species which I have found and identified, puzzled by those which remain unidentified, and enthralled as I watch the 'goings on in the garden'. The more I look the more I find, and I hope to display many more of my photographs on the internet eventually.

The list of flora and fauna from my own garden runs to at least 590 different species, including wild and cultivated plants, with:

These account for 454 species (all numbers are approximate) which leaves (at least) 136 'others' - such as small flies, mites, woodlice, lacewings, etc.

I could not possibly list them all here, but the above lists should give an indication of the biodiversity that is to be found in our gardens if we care to look. It also shows that even ordinary gardens can provide a haven for nature.

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