Another day in the garden

Feral Opium Poppy

Teasel just in to flower

The compost heap starting to cultivate fungi

Selfheal growing in the lawn

Caterpillar

Probably a Buff Tip Moth caterpillar ready to pupate. Time to put it back on the Buddleia.

EDIT Mullein Moth. Thanks for the heads up Alison. More Buddleia to be eaten then.... END EDIT

Bees

My wife suggested we stop cutting the lawn for a few weeks to give the bees some flowers. Worked well!

 
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Around the garden again

Random self seeded poppy

complete with seed heads

Red Admiral on the White Valerian

The Teasle is about to flower

Foxgloves between St Olaves and Fritton

Just noticed them as I was driving by in the rain a week or so ago

In lovely condition

With an occasional Yellow Flag amongst them

But mostly lots of Foxgloves

Bee Orchid in the front paddock

First flower, facing to the north oddly enough...

Common Vetch

Just a nice image from the garden

Bee Orchid bud

Coming along nicely

Honeysuckle

Smells lovely!

Christmas Tree looking unwell

One of the Christmas trees I planted out in the garden is looking a bit poorly and has produced these three pine cones at the top of the lead stem. Not sure it is for the long haul!

Edit: Tree did fine!

Around the garden

A day of pottering round the garden. The three hot days in February got everything started and all are growing nicely now.

Here's the central flower enlarged

We lost the mistletoe ladened apple tree last summer in the drought so we've planted about 18 new trees and I've put mistletoe berries on the apple trees. At least three have taken:

And this set of leaves is growing around about the place where the Bee Orchid flowered last year so looking hopeful

And the ornamental cherry tree is going crazy