Spotting flowers growing wild in South East UK
Hay Meadows are a type of grassland Grasslands are an interest of mine These upland hay meadows were a destination of choice for us on holiday this year! It’s chalk grassland where I live and I love it for the sheer diversity of flora. I recently completed a mini biodiversity online course from the Field…
Here are some of my more satisfying plant identifications In my last post you may have seen some of my favourite wildflowers of 2025. In this post I’m going to list some more flowers that interested me in some way. They might have been pretty, surprising, or fun to ID. Some of the plants I…
Now it’s January I’m looking over my wildflower pictures from last year It’s cold and gloomy outside, and one way to beat my seasonally affected blues is to look back on sunnier times. So here are eight of my favourite wildflower from 2025. White Helleborine Cephalanthera damasonium This was the first time I’d seen White…
Noticing the insects in my garden Here is a gallery of my garden insects in 2025. To be honest, what I enjoy about wildflowers is the chance of discovering a beautiful jewel when out walking. But not everyone thinks the same as me! I’m fully aware that many people are more interested in general biodiversity,…
My small wildlife garden pond in its first few months Here’s a gallery of pictures of my wildlife garden pond since April when I put the plants in. Read my previous post to find out more about planting my pond. My pond in May In May you can see that the pond plants haven’t had much…
Planting the Pond We put in the pond about three weeks ago and I filled it from one of our water butts. I ordered some pond plants and an aerator online and put them in soon after they arrived in the post. Pond plants I ordered a combination of native UK marginal plants with a…
Putting in the pond If you remember the previous post about my wildlife garden, you’ll know that I got a preformed pond for Christmas! The big cardboard box I was holding in the photo was this pond: You can see the pond has different levels for placing pond plants and an escape ramp for tiny…
Wildflowers in the chateau walls It’s now coming to the end of January and twilight outside despite being only 4pm! Now is the perfect time for me to look back over highlights of recent trips. The mini break that really sticks in my mind from last year was taking the campervan to Normandy. I’ve already…
Making my messy garden into a wildlife garden I live in a Victorian end-of-terrace house on the coast in Sussex in the south of England with my husband Mike and whichever of my two adult children is currently home. It’s on a large plot by modern standards with garden both front and back, and I’ll…
We took the van to Gwynedd for a late summer treat What a beautiful spot – mountains, rivers, beaches, sunsets and a few wildflowers to add to my list! We took Ethel the campervan for a few nights to a great little campsite opposite Portmeirion across the river estuary in the Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park….