Went into my little stamp sized garden this morning, and immediately my attention was drawn to the planter where I repotted marigolds I bought from the local flower shop a couple of months ago.
They've done very well, but they are fading now. Best £2.40 I've spent on plants.
What I initially thought was a bit of dead flower on the edge of the planter turned out to be a sleepy silver y moth! It went and hid under the flowers for a little while, before coming out to sun itself on a flower head, fibrillating its wings as it warmed up, before flying off.
However, before it did so, I did manage to get a decent photograph of this day flying moth.
It was a busy day, flutterer wise. The top flowers on my buddleia are being visited by red admirals, and I found a small tortoiseshell sunning itself on my wall, leaving a very gothic looking shadow on the brickwork.
I add in a few pictures from the library gardens yesterday too. We've had a couple of nice days since the hailstorm insanity earlier in the week.
Si
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Huge shortage of butterflies in my garden this year. The buddlieas flowered early and stopped flowering quickly so the butterflies didn't come when the weather got better
ReplyDeleteThe red admirals showed up to my buddleia late, as well as a couple of the very scarce small tortoiseshells
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