Tim Watts wrote in news:92diab-quk.ln1
@squidward.local.dionic.net:

And I planted some random mixture of red and white.

Some is OK - some is *very* tall (4-5"). However, it is not a disaster -
it mows OK and is quite pretty. Interestingly, if I allow it to get
tall, the slow worms and frogs *love* it as even in the recent baking
heat, it remains moist at soil level. Not exactly ornamental though...

That's interesting. I was looking at edvertisements for red clover, and
thought the flowers look more appealling than white clover.

I too have frogs in my garden (they're like little friends), so perhaps
I'll buy some red clover seed and grow a patch or two of it for them to eat
,and for me to gawk at..

Al

"AL_n" wrote in
:

Tim Watts wrote in news:92diab-quk.ln1
@squidward.local.dionic.net:

And I planted some random mixture of red and white.

Some is OK - some is *very* tall (4-5"). However, it is not a
disaster - it mows OK and is quite pretty. Interestingly, if I allow
it to get tall, the slow worms and frogs *love* it as even in the
recent baking heat, it remains moist at soil level. Not exactly
ornamental though...

That's interesting. I was looking at edvertisements for red clover,
and thought the flowers look more appealling than white clover.

I too have frogs in my garden (they're like little friends), so
perhaps I'll buy some red clover seed and grow a patch or two of it
for them to eat ,and for me to gawk at..

Al


PS...
By red clover, I actually meant "crimson clover" (i.e, the *really* red
stuff):
http://www.greenmanure.co.uk/seeds/c...-manure-seeds/

What they call "red clover" seems to be pink rather than red.

Al

On 29/07/2014 17:08, AL_n wrote:
I too have frogs in my garden (they're like little friends), so perhaps
I'll buy some red clover seed and grow a patch or two of it for them to eat
,and for me to gawk at..

Frogs don't eat clover. They eat all the little bugs that eat your plants.

Andy

In article ,
Vir Campestris wrote:
On 29/07/2014 17:08, AL_n wrote:
I too have frogs in my garden (they're like little friends), so perhaps
I'll buy some red clover seed and grow a patch or two of it for them to eat
,and for me to gawk at..

Frogs don't eat clover. They eat all the little bugs that eat your plants.

If your garden floods, the tadpole stage of frogs might well eat
the clover :-)


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

(Nick Maclaren) wrote in
:

On 29/07/2014 17:08, AL_n wrote:
I too have frogs in my garden (they're like little friends), so
perhaps I'll buy some red clover seed and grow a patch or two of it
for them to eat ,and for me to gawk at..

Frogs don't eat clover. They eat all the little bugs that eat your
plants.

If your garden floods, the tadpole stage of frogs might well eat
the clover :-)

I wish I could train mine to eat more slugs!

Al