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The homemade Bûche de Noel my husband will make for Christmas will be decorated with bright red berries and holly leaves like these. This tradition started 30 years ago. See the photograph of the 2017 Bûche in the second comment.
This photograph fits the guidelines. The berries are less than 1/4" wide.
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Despite always seeing plenty of holly blues every year I've never photographed one. There's been loads in our garden this year and despite trying really hard to photograph one I've come up short. My best opportunity came when I was looking for chequered skippers and I finally managed to photograph a holly blue
This is my son's girl friend and the little pup that they recently got. Aren't they both just cute? Holly is a gem of a girl, I just think the world of her.
A couple of shots of a Holly Blue butterfly, seen on a local walk last week.
Another shot in the comment below.
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I mistook this for a Dryandra as most people do, when in fact it is a Banksia. Holly Banksia.
Have a wonderful weekend
12-07-2025 Best day ever for butterflies in the garden. Eleven species today.
This bush is next to our large holly bush. I think they lay eggs on it. I cannot get that near it as there is another bush in front of it and lots of nettles. My legs are still smarting after taking this photo.
In my garden Stafford UK 12th July 2025
Loads of Peacocks
Large White
Greenveined White
Small White
Essex Skipper
Holly Blue
Painted Lady
Comma
Speckled Wood
Gatekeeper
Red Admiral
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I think it's a Holly Blue, but it didn't stay around long enough for me to ask it :)
Holly went with us to the horse show last weekend and was such a good girl.
Belle did not go becasue Bailey(Belles's mommy) was going to be showing and I knew Bailey would pay more attention to the horses than her dog(I know Bailey too well).
Holly was posing so pretty for me, this is one smart dog. Mackenzie's baby!
I will post some pictures of Belle later!
I'm not surprised that it is so popular, so fresh, green, with the jolly berries AND plentiful in the garden, this time of year, and also, so very decorative.
But ooohhh so prickly too!
I am trying to use as little light and dof as possible, a challenge that I love.
I find it necessary and refreshing to regularly go back to the basics of photography now and then.
As a discipline, I used to go out with my Nikon F4, a 50mm lens, b&w or colour film.
Now of course it is much more with the 'ease' of digital, however, I do NOT take hundreds of photos, the discipline is: I use my camera as a 'film' camera, each push of the button COSTS!
So, I compose carefully, wait, look, ... if I AM SURE, pleased... then, I click!
Or like here, I'll preconceive a scenario, go in the studio, set it up and photograph it only when I am happy that I have the result in front of my eyes that I had in my head.
We had a holly in our previous garden.
I wish you a day full of peace and goodness, thank you, M, (*_*)
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I have only seen a handful of Holly Blues so far this year, but including this male that landed in my garden. Holly Blues are unique among British butterflies as their larval foodplant alternates between broods. The spring butterflies lay their eggs on Holly while the autumn brood lay on Ivy. Many butterflies use alternative larval foodplants but only Holly Blue regularly alternates between its two broods.
In 1775 this butterfly was called the Azure Blue by Moses Harris in "The Aurelian" (a very early butterfly book). This name persisted in the literature until 1924. The name holly Blue was coined as recently as 1913 (overlapping with Azure Blue), and the name predominated after 1924. Prior to all this when it was first described by James Petiver (in 1717) he called the male "Blue Speckt Butterfly", and the female "Blue Speckt Butterfly with Black Tips", thinking they were different species.