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).
8 comments:
Well done getting the mistletoe to germinate, I've never managed to over the years. And you are right about May - hasn't the blossom been super this year, the recent rain has damaged some, but for a couple of weeks it looked spectacular.
Thanks so much Andrew and fingers crossed over mistletoe. We have tried at home and never managed to get it to germinate so thrilled about the apple tree. I agree it has been a brilliant year for Hawthorn.
All the trees, plants and shrubs look wonderful. I hope you get lots of apples from your tree this year. The verges and hedgerows at the moment are wonderful with both Cow Parsley and Hawthorn, we spotted moon penny daisies amongst them too on our recent travels:)
Thanks so much Rosie. Lovely to see Moon Penny Daisies - we saw some the other day on a grass verge. They are so pretty.
May is alwaysa such a beautiful month for wild flowers and trees, but this one has been a bit too chilly for my liking. HOping the summer isn't the same.
Thanks so much BB. It has been a cold month and rainy at times too :( Weekend looks warmer and sunnier though.
Sorry I'm late to the party, with everything going on here this past week or so my time has not been mine!
Lovely rainbows!
I do like the photo of the Hereford Oak this time in particular, it has three distinct areas, with the foreground of white {hawthorn maybe?} then the tree, and the row of trees in the distance.
It is so heartening when things have survived the winter!
Thanks so much Debbie and no need to apologise as I know how busy you are!
It is hawthorn in the foreground of Herefordshire Oak photo. We did lose one plant - a Dragon Plant D bought and we have lost bays in the past. It is a worry both during the winter and the summer when it is hot and dry.
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