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bee orchid, black medick, branched bur-reed, clouds, Common Spotted-orchid, Escallonia, five-spot burnet, garden, garden flowers, gazania, hedge woundwort, house-leek, hoverfly syrphus ribesii, hoverfly volucella pellucans, insects, iris, large skipper butterfly, micro moth, plants, red-eyed damselfly, southern cuckoo bumblebee, Suffolk, wasp beetle, weather, White Clover, wild flowers
We had stormy weather like this all through last summer!
Many beautiful cloudscapes
Cloudy sunsets….
…and a lot of misty evenings!
ooOOoo
Richard grew Gazanias in pots last summer. They did very well especially towards the end of summer when the weather improved.
I discovered this rather chewed iris on the bank of the big pond in our garden. We don’t have any other irises like this. I wonder where it came from?
Red-eyed Damselfly (Erythromma najas)
I saw this damselfly on a lilypad on the big pond. I zoomed my camera as far as it would go and then cropped the shot which explains the poor quality of the photo. I needed to ID this damselfly which is a new one for our garden.
In 2014 I discovered a Bee Orchid in our garden and was very excited. I looked for it again in 2015 but it didn’t re-appear. Last summer I looked again at the place where I had found the orchid and was again disappointed. However, a few days later I found four bee orchid plants about 2 metres away from the original plant. I have already seen a few leaf rosettes this winter so I know that the orchids have survived.
Bee Orchid
Bee Orchid
This may be a Southern Cuckoo Bumblebee (Bombus vestalis) on white Allium
A Wasp Beetle (Clytus arietis)
Common Spotted-orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii)
When we moved into our house we discovered one of these orchids growing close to the house. I moved it to a safer place and since then it has done well and the plant has spread all over the garden. I often find seedlings in a tub or flower pot where they seem very happy and grow enormous like the one in the photo.
Hoverfly Syrphus ribesii on Escallonia ‘Apple Blossom’
Five-spot Burnet moth (Zygaena trifolii) on White Clover (Trifolium repens)
Five-spot Burnet on White Clover
House-leek in flower
Large Skipper butterfly (Ochlodes sylvanus) on Lavender – Lavandula angustifolia ‘Hidcote’.
Hedge Woundwort (Stachys sylvatica)
Black Medick (Medicago lupulina)
Hoverfly Volucella pellucens
The same hoverfly next to a tiny micro-moth
Branched Bur-reed (Sparganium erectum)
I have now caught up with all the photos taken in and near my garden last year. I have photographs from a few outings we did that I would like to share with you and then I can concentrate on this year!
Here is my music selection – Chris Rea’s ‘Heaven’ – one of my most favourite songs!
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