May Visit to Herefordshire

 

The week before last after visiting Brueton Park LNR on the Tuesday with D, B and I went to the static caravan in Herefordshire just for three nights as the weather forecast didn't seem too good. As it turned out it was dry and sunny most of the time!

Since our April visits the Herefordshire Trees are now in leaf.

Herefordshire Oak

Octopus Tree

Constable Tree

The rose in a pot we bought last year has developed lots of new growth.

The bay tree is doing well.

Both brooms in one of the borders are flowering really well.

The apple tree has blossom. We had a really good crop of cooking apples last year from this tree.

D planted this sage which he had grown from seed and it is doing really well. This year it is flowering.

I planted just one Fox and Cubs and it is spreading!

Periwinkle and Hawthorn

The perennial wallflower I planted is growing really well.

Forget-me-Nots

Leaf Mining Bees are using the bee hotel again this year.

Thursday we went into Tenbury Wells to do a food shop at Tesco. The hedgerows and grass verges are looking wonderful full of hawthorn flowers, buttercups, dandelions, cow parsley and red campion. I do love the month of May.

We didn't go anywhere on the Friday as B wanted to garden. At tea time there were showers and a rainbow.

The field in front of the caravan is full of dandelions - so good for pollinating insects.

Hawthorn

Last month B and D put some mistletoe berries into one of the branches on the apple tree and we were thrilled to see one was sprouting although I think it can take several years before the mistletoe plant starts to appear.

I used the bat detector on the Friday evening and it was picking up calls although it was too dark to see the bats.  I am really pleased that there are still hedgehogs on the site as there were droppings on the grass.  I will start putting food out for them again when we next visit. I was worried last year that they had suffered from the dry weather as the food just wasn't getting eaten. House Martins are back on the site too.

We came home on the Saturday lunchtime. Hopefully, we will return soon and stay for longer.

All photos taken by me with the Panasonic Lumix FZ330 bridge camera. (I don't particularly rate my photos but if anyone wishes to use one of mine or my son's I would be grateful for an email first - thanks).