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Now, towards the end of June, the Wild Flower Meadow is proliferating in a new spectacular high. Ox eye daisies, smooth Hawksbeard, Bird's foot trefoils, red and white Clovers - the latter three all being nitrogen fixing flowers.
We have let nature create this by being ruthless with the plants that overgrow everything at ground level - bracken, gorse, brambles, heather, reeds, etc.
We asked one of our neighbours to put a bee hive on the little meadow, which is only 40 m x 25 m. The whole area is humming with the sound of the bees working away right on their own doorstep. There is hardly 10 cms x 10cms that is not now in flower.
Two lovely butterflies there this morning - this 'Common Blue’ which is not at all common here, and a Fritillary that I have managed to get a record of with a 24mm lens!
P6203319-En -e1s
Now, towards the end of June, the Wild Flower Meadow is proliferating in a new spectacular high. Ox eye daisies, smooth Hawksbeard, Bird's foot trefoils, red and white Clovers - the latter three all being nitrogen fixing flowers.
We have let nature create this by being ruthless with the plants that overgrow everything at ground level - bracken, gorse, brambles, heather, reeds, etc.
We asked one of our neighbours to put a bee hive on the little meadow, which is only 40 m x 25 m. The whole area is humming with the sound of the bees working away right on their own doorstep. There is hardly 10 cms x 10cms that is not now in flower.
Two lovely butterflies there this morning - this 'Common Blue’ which is not at all common here, and a Fritillary that I have managed to get a record of with a 24mm lens!