Garden Project 12

Everything in the garden has grown very tall this year with introduced species growing happily with whatever wildflowers have spring up. The Ox-eye daisies are particularly favourites with insects - every flowerhead has its quota of flies,beetles etc. The taill purple Linaria and the foxgloves, especially the small-flowered yellow ones. attract bees while all the varieties of poppies are full of hoverflies. The Yellow Rattle is tall and setting seed now so hopefully next year the grass will be sparser and more wild flower species can get a hold in the meadow.

New Visitors to the Garden

Two new species recorded in the garden this week - the Currant Clearwing (around 1.5 cm long) and a Hairy Yellow-Faced Bee. Lots of other attractive insects around at the moment

Variations on a Poppy Field

Most years there is a wonderful display of poppies on Burwash Manor Farm in one of their organic fields. I never know how to best portray them so here are some variations of technique - 1,2 Multiple exposures one in focus, one out of focus (23mm lens); 3 Focus stack at F4.5 (160mm lens); 4 single exposure F16 (23mm lens). Rest mixture of lens length and aperture.

Macro at Lark Rise Farm, Barton

Windy and mostly overcast were not the best conditions for a CCC outing for macro to Lark Rise Farm, Cambridgeshire but we still found a good variety of wildlife including beetles, flies, bugs and spiders. Now to ID them all and enter on i-record for the site!!

Toft Jubilee Street Party

 More than 260 people gathered for a tea party yesterday afternoon in Toft. Although in no way a Royalist!, I record the celebration here in my Blog as this is now my diary since I went on-line in 2008. Here a few images of the event plus one from the Silver Jubilee in 1977 in Toft. 

Many of us reflected during the party on the plight of those who, for whatever reason, do not at this time have enough food to eat or the opportunity to share it with friends and relatives.