It’s proving a great year for our apple espaliers - these Cox’s orange pippins are deep orange-red and just now coming into their ripe fruitfulness #apples #autumn #fruit #growyourown #gyo #gayGardeners #GayGardenersOfMastodon

A good year for Painted Ladies (Vanessa cardui) several having been spotted locally, having arrived with the heat waves to N Wales from southern climes. Gives me a thrill to welcome them 🥰

#lepidoptery #butterflies #butterfly #PaintedLady #vanessa #BigButterflyCount #lepidopterist

Last year’s birthday present from my husband, now flowering just in time for this birthday coming up. It’s called ‘Hot Chocolate’. Mmmm
#rose #HotChocolate #happybirthday #BloomScrolling #GayGardener #GayGarden #gaygardenersofmastodon

The burnt-orange colour of our day-lilies suggest mid-summer heat. Day-lilies. These hemerocallis seem to thrive in the heatwaves
#InMyGarden #BloomScrolling #DayLily #lily #GayGardener

one of nine different butterfly species sighted in my neighbourhood today - the highest number this year in a single day. This is a female Meadow Brown, ‘maniola’ genus, the only one spotted, sheltering in a hedge from a strong summer breeze.
#today #butterflies #butterfliesuk #MeadowBrown #BigButterflyCount

#inMyGarden just a single spectacular flamboyant bloom from our clematis this year so far - but it is one more than last year! So gay!
#clematis #BloomScrolling #gaygardeners #GayGardener #today #spring

Can anyone help identify this creature we’re seeing more around the house in this warm weather. Here it’s clinging to the outside door.

My lepidoptery season began properly yesterday with the sighting of three species of butterfly in one day. Here’s one of them, one of two speckled woods flitting in pools of warm spring sunshine in Fairy Glen.
#SpeckledWood #butterflies #butterfly #lepidoptery #spring

well, this is going to be an interesting first, a bread I’ve not made before - linseed and date. Will this combination work?
#bread #today #breadmaking #baking #bakeyourown #homeMade

The first species to arrive #InMyGarden this year, always newly emerging in April, has been the orange-tips. This male is bright and colourful…. and hungry for food from our purple phlox.

#butterflies #lepidoptera #today #GayGardenener #OrangeTip #bloomscrolling