Some front yard garden bloom scenes.
California #poppies & #WoolySunflowers
#Buttercups & #toadflax

#Spring #perennials #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #flowers #botanical #plants #garden #Bloomscrolling #florespondence #PollinatorGardens #FlowersIdentification #WhatsInMyGarden #WhatsBlooming

A great time of the year for a great view of the city of Durham's crowning glory in NE England.
Observatory Hill, pictured here bursting with buttercups and the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Durham Cathedral taking centre stage.
If you look closely, just left of the cathedral's west towers, you might be able to make out Penshaw Hill and Monument, overlooking Sunderland's Herrington Country Park, it was the location of this year's BBC Radio Big Weekend.
There are parking bays available nearby on Elvet Hill Road (free after 6pm).

#england #durham #cathedral #buttercups #unesco #spring #june #landscape #photography

Duh! I ask you! Donned all wet gear, went to the plot and... it stopped raining. Bah!

Two hours trimming the plot and adjacent area, this one to get rid of all yellow flowers, on the grounds that they are presumably not bee-friendly, so went around slowly carefully to keep lillies and orchids which are bee-friendly. So far so good but haven't finished, more tomorrow.

Phew!

#allotment #weeds #buttercups #gardening #photography #bees #lilly #orchids #flowers

Duh! I ask you! Donned all wet gear, went to the plot and... it stopped raining. Bah!

Two hours trimming the plot and adjacent area, this one go get rid of all yellow flowers, on the grounds that they are presumably not bee-friendly, so went around slowly carefully to keep lillies and orchids which are bee-friendly. So far so good but haven't finished, more tomorrow.

Phew!
#allotment #lilly #orchid #photography #bee #buttercups #flowers

Am now wondering... can't remember if it was here I read that buttercup flowers are no good for pollinators, including bees... now... if that is the case, and there being several score buttercups at the plot, have seen ONE bee, two mosquitos and a fly, over a few weeks, am extrapolating that buttercups could be emanating some noxious chemical which keeps pollinators away, so... what if.. I chop off all the buttercups, leaving marigolds, dandelions and the pollinator friendly blue/purple flowers such as marsh lily and bee lily?

Only one way to find out. will decapitate buttercups.

will report.

#allotment #nature #pollinators #flowers #buttercups #marshlily #gardening

tiny snail on pink buttercup

#snails #buttercups #SnailsOnButtercups