Went out to pull up some Downy Birch seedlings and some small brambles. Both of these take root in excessive numbers at the Boggy Brae and, without some sort of culling, would smother everything else. I lost count very quickly and reached for the strimmer. The parent tree is in its full summer glory now, though a few leaves have changed colour to yellow already, and a couple of younger trees higher up the garden have begun to drop leaves. This is normal for July here. Summer is short on a north-east-facing slope north of 56ºN.
 |
| Downy Birch bottom half |
 |
| Downy Birch top half |
 |
| A few of its babies |
When I took the first load of scythings and strimmings to the compost heap (one of the compost heaps, I should say), I noticed that wild angelica was in flower.
On it were various beasties. Especially obvious were some orange Soldier Beetles (I
think that's what they are!)
But hot on that beetle's tail came this guy. Soldier beetle held his ground for a bit but then scuttled off.
Black and yellow guy then shooed off another soldier beetle
and held his flower head
Soldier beetle found free bunch of flowers elsewhere
Meanwhile, on hogweed, there was this handsome chap
No comments:
Post a Comment