Got out for a walk this morning but the sunny conditions at home again disappeared when I got out and about. Still, quite a few butterflies were around, dingy and grizzled skippers, small heath, common blue, a single holly blue, green hairstreak, speckled wood, orange tip, peacock, small white and good numbers of burnets and burnet companions too.
Roman snail shells are scattered around all over the place but this is time I have seen one which is inhabited by the original occupant.
This spider, a type of crab spider I assume, was chomping away on a wood louse when I found it. I thought the only spider which could get through their armour was woodlouse spiders. Obviously that's not the case.
And finally a couple of pics of the garden. The front garden has a mixed hedge down the outer edge which was planted as whips and is gradually thickening up and pushing the flowers out but there is still plenty of buddleia in there.
This is the south west facing corner of the back garden. The soil is heavy clay and is very poor so it is a devil to get a lot of stuff to grow in as the mediterrean plants which love it in the summer die in the cold wet winters. I'm perservering though with a mixture of native and mediterrean plants.
I've been trying to remember the names of all the plants in the pictures, and can't! Too much stuff.
