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  • Creepy crawlies on garden flowers cartoon

    bugs on flowers cartoon

    Garden insects cartoon

    Cartoon about garden insects on flowers.

    A gardener looking closely at a flower and noticing the tiny insects that are living on it that had been unnoticed until he examined the bloom closely.
    The gardener is saying ” It’s wonderful how every spring I’m newly surprised by the incredible shapes and colours of the flowers in the garden – and of the insects that are hiding between their petals.”
    A cartoon about garden wildlife, secret life in the garden, invertebrates, nature, natural gardening, organic gardening, eco-friendly gardening.
    Cartoon reference number: a288

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  • Frogs spawning in garden pond – garden gnomes cartoon

    frogs spawning garden gnomes cartoon

    Garden wildlife cartoon and garden gnome cartoon

    Cartoon of a garden pond that has garden gnomes round the edge holding coils of barbed wire in order to keep cats away from the pond

    The garden gnomes are being used to protect the frogs and fish in the pond from the local cats.
    Cats are a problem around garden ponds, especially in the frog spawning season.

    Garden gnomes are normally holding fishing rods, spades, wheelbarrows or other gardening implements. Gnomes holding barbed wire is a novelty.
    Part of the joke is that this particular type of garden gnome is actually useful rather than just being decorative.

    Cartoon reference number: a265

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  • Vegetable gardening cartoon – cabbage white butterfly cartoon

    cabbage white butterfly cartoon

    Vegetable gardening cartoon – a cabbage white butterfly in the veg patch

    Cartoon showing a girl seeing a cabbage white butterfly in her parents’ vegetable garden

    She is saying “Daddy – a lovely white butterfly has just landed on your cabbages!”

    A cartoon about the innocence of childhood, garden pests, gardeners’ banes.

    Cartoon reference number: a250

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  • Gardening cartoons – butterflies are like flying flowers

    butterflies are like flying flowers - cartoon

    Gardening cartoons – butterflies are like flying flowers

    Cartoon showing butterflies in a garden

    The gardener is saying “I like to think of butterflies as aerial flower displays”

    A cartoon about attracting insects to the garden, butterfly gardening, garden design.

    Cartoon reference number: a249

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  • Garden bird feeder and bird seed cartoon

    bird feeder and bird seed cartoon

    Cartoon about garden bird feeders, feeding stations and bird seed

    Cartoon showing a bird feeder full of bird seed

    The gardener is asking his wife if she has seen his prize marrow seeds

    The implication is that the gardener’s wife has used the prize vegetable seeds as bird food.

    Cartoon reference number: a248

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  • Bird nesting box cartoon – a bird box with classical facade

    bird box with classical facade cartoon

    Cartoon about garden birds and bird nesting boxes

    Bird nesting box cartoon – a classical facade for a bird box

    A gardener nailing a classical facade in front of a hole in a tree that’s being used by a bird as a nest

    A cartoon about attracting birds to gardens, bird box design, wildlife merchandising.

    Cartoon reference number: a247

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  • Cartoon about garden birds and bird nesting boxes

    Bird nesting box cartoon

    Cartoon about garden birds and bird nesting boxes

    Cartoon showing a gardener looking at a bird that is nesting in a birdbox in his garden.
    The bird is building a nest in the nesting box and is carrying nesting material to the nest.

    The man is thinking “Isn’t that one of my prize delphinium seedlings?”

    Birds as garden pests taking seedlings.
    The cartoon also about the subject of being taken advantage of – the gardener has thoughtfully and kindly provided the bird with a nesting box, but the bird has then proceeded to take the gardener’s plants. Of course in real life the bird wouldn’t realise what it was doing, but this is a cartoon, and in cartoons animals are often as conscious of their actions as humans are – in fact they are humans in animal form.

    Cartoon reference number: a246

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  • Bird cartoon – attracting birds to your garden with a bird table

    autumn bird table bush cartoon

    Cartoon about attracting birds to your garden with a bird table

    The gardener has put a bush that is full of ripe berries onto the bird table to attract birds

    A cartoon about encouraging wildlife in the garden, bird feeding stations, bird feeders.
    Cartoon reference number: a243

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  • Insect pests in gardens – cartoon

    ants garden pests cartoon

    Garden pests cartoons. Ants in the garden

    Cartoon about garden insect pests – ants eating food on a garden table

    Cartoon showing a man relaxing at a garden table, but with a column of ants eating his cake on the table. The man is reading a manual titled “How to get rid of ants”.

    A cartoon about insect pests in gardens, ants attracted to sweet food in a garden.

    Cartoon reference number: a239

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  • Wildlife gardening cartoon – a nesting box for robins

    robin bird box - cartoon

    Garden humour – putting a nesting box for robins

    Cartoon showing a gardener putting a bird box in a tree to encourage birds to nest in his garden

    The joke is in the fact that there’s a robin building a nest in the packaging or packing box that held the nesting box kit rather than in the nesting box itself.
    Robins are well known for building their nests in unusual places, such as in discarded kettles, tin cans etc.

    Cartoon reference number: a218

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  • Garden cartoons – cats watching frogs spawning in a garden pond

    cats watching frogs spawning - joke

    Garden pond cartoon. Cats watching frogs spawning in a garden pond

    A cartoon showing cats staring into a garden pond in which frogs are spawning

    A cartoon about wildlife in the garden, encouraging wildlife, cats catching birds and animals in the garden, deterring cats, frogs’ breeding season, spring in the garden.
    Cartoon reference number: a204

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  • Cat toilet cartoon

    cat joke - looking at seed bed

    Cat cartoon. A cat looking at a freshly raked seed bed in a garden and thinking of using it as a toilet

    One of the problems of cats in gardens is that they often use parts of the garden as a toilet

    A cartoon about cats, litter trays, gardening, toilets, seed beds, deterring cats.
    Cartoon reference number: a198

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  • Cat cartoon. A cat trying to catch birds at a garden bird table

    cat catching birds cartoon

    Funny cat cartoon. A cat trying to catch birds at a garden bird table

    A humorous illustration about the problem of cats stalking birds in gardens

    A cartoon about garden wildlife, bird tables, feeding birds.

    Drawn: July 2011

    Cartoon reference number: a197

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  • Garden pests cartoon

    a bugs guide to garden pests cartoon

    Gardening cartoon. A bug’s guide to garden pests

    A comic illustration showing a caterpillar or grub (a garden pest) looking at a gardening book or manual about garden pests. The pest shown in the book is a gardener with a canister of pesticide.
    The cartoon is in the anthropomorphic tradition common in cartoons.

    Cartoon reference number: a196

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  • Garden birds cartoon. A bird feeder to attract predators to the garden

    Bird feeder cartoon for predators

    Garden birds cartoon
    Garden wildlife cartoon

    A bird feeder to attract predators such as hawks and owls to the garden, in the form of a bird feeder with a small bird sitting inside it (like a bird cage)
    A cartoon showing how to attract different types of wild bird to the garden.

    A cartoon about opposing attitudes to nature – as either a benign force or as being “red in tooth and claw”
    Cartoon reference number: gar009
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  • Baby insect cartoon. Are maggots cute?

    Insect cartoon. An adult insect admiring a baby insect, saying how cute it is. It's a maggot

    Insect cartoon
    Maggot cartoon

    Creepy crawly cartoon.
    An adult insect admiring a baby insect, saying how cute and adorable it is. The baby insect is a maggot.
    This cartoon is about the way that what we find attractive (or repulsive) is governed by factors of psychology and perception that are dependant on factors within the framework of our existence – such as whether we’re humans or insects. Evolution plays a big part.
    Aesthetic judgement is not an independent quality.
    Adults are hardwired to find babies attractive, cute and appealing.

    A cartoon about aesthetics, beauty, prejudice, larva, larvae, grubs, maggots, aesthetic taste, bias, revulsion, repulsion, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, aesthetic relativism, entymology, evolution.
    Cartoon reference number: mag710