In my garden

[badgerwatcher]

Lovely thread. My garden has so many bees of various varieties. The lizards are active. I haven't seen any frogs or toads yet. The foxes and badgers were very vocal last night, and this morning the seagulls and doves are doing their usual trick of shouting down the chimneys. I've been seeing lots of butterflies, and loads of greenfly. All the usual birds.
A profusion of flowers everywhere, cherry and apple blossom, laburnum, white spirea, white and mauve lilac, honesty, periwinkle, berberus, blue pagoda-like flowers on the ajuga rutens, forget-me-nots, heather, wallflowers, primroses, cowslips, bluebells, red valarian, buds on the azalias, celandine, japonica, wisteria, dicentra.
And sunshine.

[Pete Collins]

Originally Posted by aeshna5

... Kayleigh your yellow flowered plant is a rock-rose, Helianthemum cultivar.

Interesting - that explains why I thought it had some resemblance to the Common Rock-rose that I see here in the Chilterns.

[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by aeshna5

Some nice photos. Kayleigh your yellow flowered plant is a rock-rose, Helianthemum cultivar.

Thanks for the ID aeshna its a lovely plant lost of insects and spiders live in it next to the wall and its covered in new flowers everyday..

WOW......BW.....you have lots of interesting things in your garden lizards badgers and fox's
My son used to moan he lived at home as the dove would shout down the chimney very early every morning and wake him..
I couldn't hear it from my room..

[agrumpycow]

Originally Posted by badgerwatcher

A profusion of flowers everywhere, cherry and apple blossom, laburnum, white spirea, white and mauve lilac, honesty, periwinkle, berberus, blue pagoda-like flowers on the ajuga rutens, forget-me-nots, heather, wallflowers, primroses, cowslips, bluebells, red valarian, buds on the azalias, celandine, japonica, wisteria, dicentra.
And sunshine.

Sounds like a wonderful garden!

[agrumpycow]

This blackbird is just about fully fledged now, the Dad has been refusing to feed him for the last couple of days. He likes to spend a lot of time stood by the pond but still gets spooked if something lands too close!



And earlier this fella put in an appearance. I stayed well back because I think it was just about his first time out & used a lot of zoom on the camera, hence the quality, but I fell in love

[Kayleigh]

Lovely shots Claire, when I read that I thought you fell in the pond then..

My birds have done a disappearing act since I found a zoom button on the camera yesterday

[badgerwatcher]

The great thing about thisthread is, I didn't think I'd planted much in a year until I started writing my list. There were lots more I left off. Makes me feel better. I must get a pond dug.

[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by badgerwatcher

The great thing about thisthread is, I didn't think I'd planted much in a year until I started writing my list. There were lots more I left off. Makes me feel better. I must get a pond dug.

Yes BW you must.

[slimrbp]

Originally Posted by agrumpycow

Very nice pictures slimrbp! I'm also looking forward to seeing more pics. For a first garden you're very lucky

Thank you, it was a bit unkempt when we inherited it so we did a bit of work clearing the junk etc and set aside a lot of the garden for wild flowers and a couple of vegetable patches. Some of the wildflowers were planted from pots augmented with some sown seeds, the seedlings are just coming out now so can't wait to see what we have!

The pond isn't brilliant (just a very small hard plastic liner) so in the Autumn we are planning a proper pond (don't want to disturb the froggies yet!).

Great to see the shots from other peoples gardens keep up the good work !

[agrumpycow]

My first water forget-me-nots in flower this afternoon!