Picked some elderberries while out walking and turned them into cordial (a few blackberries may have found their way in as well).
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Elderberry cordial
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Sunrise – 28.08.22
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Morning cosmos
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Sawfly Larvae
They look like caterpillars but aren’t. I haven’t had any before in the garden so quite excited to see different things this year as the garden develops. I found them while still small and only a tiny section of redcurrant leaf missing, but it soon spiralled and they have stripped a small section. It doesn’t really show and hasn’t harmed the plant, so just let them be.
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Sunset – 03.08.22 #2
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Hummingbird hawkmoth in the garden
A real treat to see one of these in my garden, a few times in one day, and actually saw one again this morning. The buddleia is doing a very good job this year, catering for plenty of bees, butterflies, moth, hoverflies, beetles and various other small insects. Got a few good pics and fottage of it flying around, but they aren’t easy!
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Sunrise – 15.08.22
It was quite a lovely sunrise.
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White cosmos
A white cosmos opened today 😍
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Sunrise – 30.07.22
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Gatekeeper butterfly
Had plenty of opportunity to photograph some gatekeepers, they thoroughly enjoyed the lavender.
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