If you walk on rough ground or along a country lane on a warm June or July night, you may come across a tiny, glowing stub of light like a cigarette end, but a pale, unearthly green.
Glow-worms: the fairy lights of the hedgerow
Tagged snails
Mr Snail At My Lettuces!
Every garden is full of eyes watching and noses sniffing as you dig a deep hole, fill it with compost and install a carefully chosen plant. As early as next morning, you may realise that you have given an expensive treat to some ungrateful roe deer, mouse or slug. If the plant does survive its planting, the buds, flowers and especially the fruit will later be under attack.