A random selection of photographs showing wildlife visiting our nursery and garden.

Butteflies and Moths

Comma on Grapes
Red Admiral on Sedum ‘Matrona’
Stokesia ‘Purple Parasols’ with Brimstone
Scabiosa cretica with Brimstone
Small Copper on Aster frikartii ‘Monch’
Scabiosa perfecta Blue with ‘Clouded Yellow’
Gatekeeper on Meadowsweet
Peacocks on Liatris spicata
Painted Lady on Knautia macedonica ‘Red Knight’
Verbena bonariensis with Large Skipper
Meadow Brown on Bramble
Brimstone on Lythrum
Silver Washed Fritillary on Echinacea purpurea ‘Magnus’
Red Admiral on Verbena bonariensis
Small Skipper on Bird’s Foot Trefoil
Six Spot Burnet on Betony
Small Copper onSedum erythrostictum ‘Mediovariegatum’
Comma on Verbena bonariensis
Orange Tip on Cardamine pratensis

Bees…

Echinacea purpurea ‘Cheyenne Spirit’ and honeybee
Eremurus with bumblebee
Echinacea with bee
Bee enjoying Sedum erythrostictum ‘Mediovariegatum’
Eryngium x zabelii ‘Big Blue’ with honeybee
Bumblebee on Helenium ‘Butterpat’
Salvia sclarea ‘Turkestanica’ with bumblebee
Honeybee on Helenium ‘Sahin’s Early Flowerer’
Cirsium rivulare ‘Atropurpureum’ with bee

..and Others

White garden crab spider on Zantedechia
Crab Spider in Digitalis ‘Snow Thimble’
Bee Fly on Pulmonaria Diana Clare
Eryngium x zabelii ‘Big Blue’ with soldier beetles
Common Darter on Blackthorn
Bee Fly on Pulmonaria Diana Clare
Limnanthes with Oedemera nobilis
Nesting Wren
Leucanthemum with wasp beetle
Crab Spider in Digitalis ‘Snow Thimble’