These are Honkas – proper name, Dahlia Honka Surprise – and who could resist such happy, smiley flowers? Both of them live in Sue (Sue, as in gluten-free beer expert Sue)’s garden up behind Lyme Regis. Also in Sue’s garden, this very ‘Interiors’ table with a vase of montbretia … and, very impressively, this very …
More wild flowers
Rather embarrassingly I remember commenting some weeks ago that although we had amazing trees on Hampstead Heath we did not seem to have that many wild flowers. Obviously someone was listening as since then I seem to have met loads – and I very much hope that Emma is going to be able to tell …
The cool ponds of Waterlow Park
Given the steaming heat of the last few days I thought the best thing I could offer you all was some watery and cool-duck-filled images from Waterlow Park. Well, I am assuming that the ducks are cool – they certainly don’t look too bothered…. (More on Waterlow Park itself on a future less steamy day.) …
Be nice to a wasp day…..
I sent Matthew the link to to yesterday’s post about the oak gall wasps to which he had introduced me – which I now learn, thanks to Tom Ogren, are a quite different type of wasp from the one I filmed totally failing to go anywhere near an acorn. (For more see the comments). Anyhow, …
Oak gall wasps
Last Sunday I walked across the heath with my ex-next door neighbour, Matthew – he of the splendid garden at Troyes House that I visited back in the early spring. (See this post for a walk around it complete with some super vocal birds.) As we passed the massive hollow-trunked oak tree near my path …
The beautiful – and the gross….
The beautiful….. Our swan family, caught by our reader who sent us the wonderful image of the mother incubating her eggs back in April, and who wondered whether this was the same family. I was thinking that there might be two families but definitely wasn’t sure and suggested that a call to the Corporation might …