Wednesday: Ladybird and …

… Goat’s rue https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galega_officinalis and Bramley cooking apples.

It started raining when we got up this morning and fortunately stopped by 9:30am - MrD on deliveries and didn’t want to get wet!

I put the washing out late morning, very windy and some sunshine by then - a couple of hours later the clothes were dry.

Had an hour or so out in the garden - the ox-eye daisies are always welcome for their happy flowers and their usefulness for the pollinators and the butterflies and moths too. They’ve been flowering for the last couple of months, I’ve collected some ripe seed for the Cottage Garden Seed Swap and have now cut the plants down to the ground and was shocked to see the the soil is dust dry.

The apple trees have been shedding their leaves because of the dry weather too and I collected a good tub full along the path to the greenhouse, scraping the concrete too and adding the comfrey leaves to the leaf mix - used the mixture to mulch around the blueberries and that little patch of garden.

Two young blackbirds were busy finishing off the ripe red gooseberries late afternoon and exploring the leaf mulch :-))

Nos da pawb / goodnight all xx