With a back garden that is 100ft long, I have been spending a considerable amount of time splitting the garden up into sections. In total there are 8 sections, of which I have completed 5. Well 4½, as section 5 is where there is a new grass-seeded lawn, where for some unknown reason only one area of seed germinated. Most odd.
Today I was working on section 7, having missed out 6 for the time being, as this is the pond and BBQ area, which I'll be going back to later.
Section 7 is an area which I will be turning into a mini meadow full of:
1. Borage (Borage officinalis)
2. Common Knapweed (Centaurea nigra)
3. Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus)
4. Cow Parsley (Anthriscus sylvestris)
5. Ox-Eye Daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare)
6. Yellow Rattle (Rhinanthus minor)
7. Common Poppy (Papaver rhoeas)
8. Hemp Agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum)
9. Alexanders (Smyrnium olusatrum)
10. Common Ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris)
Seeds 1 - 6 were bought online with the remaining four sourced from Wakeham Meadow. It should be interesting to see what appears next Spring.
Birds Recorded in and around the garden:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
4 House Martin
Dunnock
1 Robin
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Goldfinch
6. Yellow Rattle (Rhinanthus minor)
7. Common Poppy (Papaver rhoeas)
8. Hemp Agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum)
9. Alexanders (Smyrnium olusatrum)
10. Common Ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris)
Seeds 1 - 6 were bought online with the remaining four sourced from Wakeham Meadow. It should be interesting to see what appears next Spring.
Birds Recorded in and around the garden:
Herring Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
4 House Martin
Dunnock
1 Robin
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw
Starling
House Sparrow
Goldfinch
Below are a few images and a video of a Robin in the back garden.
Butterflies Recorded:
2 Small White
These two........
..........are Small Whites.
5 Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
4 Common Carder bee (Bombus pascuorum)
1 Common Furrow-bee (Lasioglossum calceatum)
A Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) warming up in the afternoon sun. And.....
........another on the Lavender.
And a Common Carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum). Also.........
............on the Lavender.
And this...........
.............is a Common Furrow-bee (Lasioglossum calceatum)
Wasp sp.
Hoverflies Recorded:
2 Common Dronefly (Eristalis tenax)
1 Thick-legged hoverfly (Syritta pipiens)
A Thick-legged hoverfly (Syritta pipiens) on Common Ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris)
Ted:
Ted chilled out in the back garden.