The wild flowers are coming into their summer garb now. Foxgloves are tempting the bees. Below - also a Foxglove but it has forgotten to grow upwards!
Black Bryony threading through a hedgerow.
Looking over the valley.
Meadowsweet about to bloom.
Woody Nightshade.
Red Campion. I have now seen this for sale in Garden Centres, and called by its Latin name, Silene . . .
The tall flowers of Navalwort.
Up the top of the hill now, and a better view across the valley looking N-E. On the left you can just about see the tractor at work in a field recently cut for silage. I think he's muck-spreading.
Above and below: Buff Tail Bumble Beeshard a work on a pretty thistle.
A Heron near the pond in the opposite field.
Wild Aquilegia by our field gate. We just have this palest pink flower - half a dozen plants (downfrom a high of 14 - they WILL persist in dragging too-wide farm machinery along the bank.
Ladies-in-waiting in our top field.
Sam being Lord of the Manor in the garden.
Three of the plants I bought at Malvern on Monday. Veronica, Astrantia and Digiplexus. The latter is now planted up in a tub the others I shall pop in the back border this morning.
Right, this won't do. This post has taken me an hour to load photos and write and I need to Get On - I am in the Junk Room of Doom but doing well. Photos later . . .
