Day 312 #365DaysWild Grass mowed yesterday. Rain this morning. The garden, wet, and fresh green.  Demonstrating that one colour need not be monotonous ..read more

Day 311 #365DaysWild A recycled sheet draped over a bramble increases the reflective area for attracting moths.. A cold spring evening for garden mothing. And quite a clear night which often reduces numbers coming to the light. Sited in the Cedar Walk. Very few moths on the wing - at the time of the year when the early season moths are not in flight and the late spring moths haven’t stirred. Angle shades Brindled beauty 3 Hebrew character 3 Spruce carpet 2 (pictured) So We’ll perhaps get chance to go again tonight ..read more

Day 309 #365DaysWild Kedleston Hall, Derby. Go there for veteran trees. And bluebells ..read more

Day 307 365DaysWild Don't ever give up hoping. The last record of a hedgehog here was in 2017. Seven years ago. Readers of this blog will know I've got my hopes raised before but to no avail.......... Then this little fellah appeared on the camera in the Woodland Garden last night! Just about as excited as a man can get!!!! Welcome home spiky ..read more

Day 307 #365DaysWild On our national day - our national bird photographed in the garden. Little stunner ..read more

Day 306 #365DaysWild Around 2012 I was clearing brambles on the boundary and discovered a little clump of native bluebells. One small clump of four flower spikes in a six-acre site! I had seen bluebells growing abundantly in areas within Bestwood Country Park so decided to buy plants ‘in the green’ for planting near our one existing clump. Twelve years in and you can see the progress. I added further bulbs for a few years.  And then began casting seed. The results are satisfying ..read more

Day 304 #365DaysWild Down at George’s Pond … Another day, another stag-do for mallard drakes. How many can you count..? Granddaughter (4) says 2 Grandson (6) says 3 Daughter says 4 Son-in-law says 5. The judges decision is final ..read more

Day 302 #365DaysWild Can a poo not be a thing of beauty? Approx one inch (2.5cm) long.. No idea from which creature’s bottom it emerged ..read more

Day 302 #365DaysWild Bluebells at Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire today.. Also through this azure celebration we’re white to soft mauve wood anenome, butter-yellow celandine and understated but pretty-white stitchwort. A wonderful mixture of our woodland understory flora. I struggle to imagine anything more natural - and beautiful! Thanks to our wonderful friends Mike and Gill for sharing this with us on a walk this morning ..read more

Day 301 #365DaysWild ‘Garden of ten ponds’ #2 Continuing my 'series' on our garden ponds... This is a small pond in the woodland garden made from a recycled mini-vegetable bed reclaimed from a skip. Enjoyed by birds and small mammals. Believe it or not, my hope is for rat-tailed maggots in it this summer. Rat-tailed maggots love the gunk in ponds. On maturity, they will join the rest of the garden hover-fly population ..read more