Spotting flowers growing wild in South East UK
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…
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…
Coastal wildflowers already out We took the campervan a few miles up the South Coast from Sussex coast towards Kent for a one night trip this spring. This is what happens when you share a house with adult children – you get kicked out from time to time! We were so lucky with the lovely…
Flowering around the town This month, either side of my big campervan holiday I wandered around my Sussex hometown to see what wildflowers I could find. Early June blooms on Seaford Head On a hot early summer day I went for a walk looking for Twayblade orchids and found a Common Spotted orchid at the same…
Flowering in my Sussex garden this summer Following on from my similar May blog post about garden wildflowers, here is what was in flower a month later. White herb robert – Geranium robertianium This continues my theme of what is a weed and what is a wildflower? My friend Mercy sent me this plant, which…
Also known as weeds I guess a lot of people have been wildflower spotting closer to home this spring. The trouble with garden wild flowers is they might also be considered weeds. A weed can be a cultivated plant or a native plant in the wrong place and I have both! What is a native…
Photographing wildflowers last year I didn’t photograph wildflowers so much in 2017 – this is because after a couple of years of doing it, I realised that a photo of a daisy taken in 2015, for example, looks much like a photo of a daisy taken in 2016. However I now have a new camera,…