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2006 Octubre  1, Sunday

One of the first things I did when we spent the first weekend on our own terrain was taking away the On-Sale sign of the estate agency which was fixed to a pile of cement blocks. Then I started to move some of these blocks with the intention of taking them to a better place. At that moment some bats escaped suddenly from the pile. I also discovered two wasp nests and the remains of a bird nest. It became clear that this pile harboured a lot of wild life and I decided to build it up again on a different place and in a more solid way.

These blocks are hollow and offer a lot of niches and hiding places. The new wall has a sunny and dry south exposition and a shady, humid north face. Some blocks were filled with soil and/or branches and wood. It's unknown to me how these blocks will react to weather conditions like ice, water and temperature changes. Some months later I planted here some Hedera helix and Clematis vilalba to take posesion of the wall and offer it some kind of protection. I also decided later on to take away the small tower at the top which looked a bit too gloomy to us.

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This caterpillar is the larva of a  Hyles euphorbiae (Spurge Hawk-moth) and it is eating from a Spurge species, in this case an Euphorbia cyparissias, which is his preferred plant species.This plant is immediately recognized by its sterile branches (without flowers) with linear leaves. It's present throughout the terrain and also in the heading photography at the top of these webpages.

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The general aspect of the terrain has started to become quite green. Some species take advantage of their roots or rhizomes, others germinate from seed. The latter is the case of Setaria pumila (Yellow bottlegrass) an obtrusive annual grass species. Two weeks later some specimens had aquired a beautiful reddish colour.

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Also reddish become the leaves of Cornus sanguinea (Common Dogwood), while moss gets a brighter green colour.

The biowall on
14 Oct. 2006,10:27 In the foreground Senecio jacobaea which continued flourishing until December

Larva of Hyles euphorbiae eating of an Euphorbia cyparissias.
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Looking west. Satureja montana in the foreground, Cornus sanguinea to the left and honeysuckles and brambles to the right.15:08

Looking east, in the central part of the terrain.
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