Some frivolous facts about your garden

Did you know:

• Butterflies can taste through their feet but they can’t chew. They use this unique talent to find leaves where they can lay eggs to give their caterpillars the best start.
  
• Stinging nettles are a valuable addition to your garden since they support butterflies and other insects. This food source will encourage birds and other wild creatures.
• A mature tree can be thirsty, gulping down up to 230 litres of water every day. No wonder big trees can undermine houses when the suck the ground dry.
  
• The rose family contains some of the most popular fruits in the garden, including apples and pears, apricots and cherries, almonds, raspberries and strawberries, amongst others.
  
• Whilst a sunflower looks like it has one large flower, it actually is made up of lots of tiny flowers, which become seeds.
• Oak trees have to mature for about 50 years before they start to grow acorns.
• When rain approaches, bees may disappear from the garden. They return to the hive when humidity increases.
• A species of grass known as seagrass has been growing on earth for up to 200,000 years, scientists think.
• Grass regrows so efficiently because it has evolved to grow from the base rather than the top, so it benefits from being grazed or cut.