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Key Word:

      GARDEN



Encyclopedia Entry:

The Enemies of the Rose
, 2010, by Margaret Salmon

This is a short 16mm film transfered to digital. Made over a summer’s day and night, Salmon worked on a clockwork Bolex camera to film a ‘study’ of her small garden in Kent. The film is silent (you can play your own soundtrack if you like).









What kind of nature film would you make?

Could it be in a park?
A woods?
Or your back garden?
(like this one!)

What or whom would you film?...

Species to Spot




Below is a list of plants, animals and insects featured in the film. The list is made in the order of their appearence and it provides both the common name & scientific name of each species

Occasionally plants will be more commonly known by their latin name i.e. ceanothus.

Do you have any similar plants, animals or insects near your home?



Opening Sequence:


Russian Blue Cat – Felis catus


Ox-eye daisy - Leucanthemum vulgare

Dog rose – Rosa canina

Yellow sheep-sorrel – Oxalis stricta

Common marigold - Calendula officinalis

Foxglove – Digitalis purpurea

Dog rose – Rosa canina

European Columbine - Aquilegia vulgaris

Chives - Allium schoenoprasum

African Daisy - Osteospermum ecklonis

Ivy-leaved Toadflax - Cymbalaria muralis

Geranium - Pelargonium × hortorum

Ceanothus  - Ceanothus arbore


The rest of the film:


 Aphids on Rose

    a.     Rose aphid - Macrosiphum rosae

    b.     Money spider (top left of leaf) – Linyphiidae


Tortrix moth caterpillar on rosemary

    a.     Rosemary - Salvia rosmarinus

    b.     Tortrix moth caterpillar – Tortricidae


Black garden ant on common peony

    a.     Common Peony - Paeonia officinalis

    b.     Black garden ant - Lasius niger


European garden spider on Ceanothus

    a.     Ceanothus – Ceanothus arboreus

    b.     European garden spider – Araneus diadematus


Buzzing spider - Anyphaena accentuata


Speckled bush cricket (juvenile) on Common marigold

    a.     Speckled bush cricket – Leptophyes punctatissima

    b.     Common marigold - Calendula officinalis


Dark bush-cricket – Pholidoptera griseoaptera


European garden spider on African daisy

    a.     European garden spider - Araneus diadematus

    b.     African daisy - Osteospermum ecklonis


Common carder bee on French lavender

    a.     Common carder bee - Bombus pascuorum

    b.     French lavender - Lavandula stoechas


White tailed bumble bee on Ceanothus

    a.     White tailed bumble bee - Bombus lucorum

    b.     Ceonothus - Ceanothus arboreus


Blackbird – Turdus merula

Holly Blue (butterfly) - Celastrina argiolus

Holly Blue (butterfly) - Celastrina argiolus


Black garden ants on common peony

    a.     Common Peony - Paeonia officinalis

    b.     Black garden ant - Lasius niger


Garden snail – Cornu asperum

Dusky slug – Arion fuscus

Ground beetle - Agonum assimile

Common woodlouse - Oniscus asellus

European garden spider - Araneus diadematus

Common hedgehog - Erinaceus europaeus







Now, if possible, go outside and make your own study.

You don’t need a camera.

You can use your thinking, looking, listening, smelling and touching skills to start.


Then share what you’ve observed -
on paper, with pencil,
paints,
with words...

anything goes!
























With thanks to Eglantine, Ulysses & Toby Mills (for IDing the species).
©Housework Films Ltd.