Your gardens

[Susie]

I am determined to get a shot showing the dozen on there on that I have seen. THEN I will be showing off!

[Shirley Roulston]

Butterflies do not like Iris's, they fly pass them have a look and carry on, very pretty in a garden the Iris but that's all.
Shirley

[Susie]

They can be beautiful though, I do love irises. They are one of the few things that don't seem to be particularly good for insects which I grow anyway. The yellow flag irises in the pond go down a treat with the bees though.

[Eris]

Looking through the hayfield/wildflower area.

The Wildwood

Over the pond

Speckled Wood corner ( the CD's are there to stop sparrowhawks attacking my pigeons! )

Looking towards the pond

[Dave McCormick]

Hi Eris, like the garden alot, looks like a very good wildlife area wondering, how do0es the CD's stop the sparrowhawks?

[Susie]

Wow, that's gorgeous Eris.

How big is your garden?

[Eris]

Thanks.

The CD's catch the light and help make the hawk take its eye off it's quarry.

The garden is about an acre and a half, but around half an acre is taken up with poultry runs/enclosures.

The wild flower are is looking good now, lots of birdsfoot trefoil, knapweed sorrels, bedstraws and that purple thing that looks like a small wild verbena and various vetches. And I've just bought some horseshoe vetch and devilsbit scabious to plant out.

[Inachisio]

My garden in Spain is not easy to keep. The climate is a little terrible here: frost in winter, extremely warm in summer (40º all summers, sometimes more), very dry, with water concentrated in storms in spring and summer, and strong wind. And more important that these conditions is that is a garden completely surrounded by urban environment, far to the field. So, not many kinds of wildlife appear in it.








This is my garden from various corners.



And this is the urban environment that surround it.

Despite of this, some wildlife can appear sometimes in the garden. The diurnal butterflies that I saw in my garden are the next:

Swallowtail (Papilio machaon)
Swallowtail (Iphiclides feisthamelii)
Large White (Pieris brassicae)
Small White (Pieris rapae)
Green-veined White (Pieris napi)
Colias crocea
Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)
Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui)
Peacock (Inachis io)
Small Tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae)
Comma (Polygonia c-album)
Argynnis pandora
Issoria lathonia
Brintesia circe
Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria)
Lasiommata megera
Holly Blue (Celastrina argiolus)
Polyommatus icarus
Geranium Bronze (Cacyreus marshalli)

[Paul]

I would like to have that list visiting my garden!!

11 species here today.. all common...Peacock, Painted Lady, Small Tort, Comma, Red Admiral, Wall, Speckled Wood, Large, Small & GV Whites, and a Small Copper.

Thought I'd post a few pics of my evolving wildflower corner... as it is today, mid Aug.. bit messy..Kidney Vetch is a bit of a thug.. but at least one rabbit visits regularly, which helps.