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Highlights Part 4

30 Mon Jan 2017

Posted by Clare Pooley in Gardening, Insects, plants, Rural Diary, wild flowers

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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

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We had stormy weather like this all through last summer!

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Many beautiful cloudscapes

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Cloudy sunsets….

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…and a lot of misty evenings!

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ooOOoo

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Richard grew Gazanias in pots last summer. They did very well especially towards the end of summer when the weather improved.

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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?

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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

Bee Orchid

Bee Orchid

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This may be a Southern Cuckoo Bumblebee (Bombus vestalis) on white Allium

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A Wasp Beetle (Clytus arietis)

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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.

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Hoverfly Syrphus ribesii on Escallonia ‘Apple Blossom’

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Five-spot Burnet moth (Zygaena trifolii) on White Clover (Trifolium repens)

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Five-spot Burnet on White Clover

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House-leek in flower

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Large Skipper butterfly (Ochlodes sylvanus) on Lavender – Lavandula angustifolia ‘Hidcote’.

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Hedge Woundwort (Stachys sylvatica)

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Black Medick (Medicago lupulina)

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Hoverfly Volucella pellucens

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The same hoverfly next to a tiny micro-moth

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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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