Butterflies...

First of all, I'd like to award the prize for the Most Inventive Use of a Mozart Horn Concerto in a Moving Picture Soundtrack to....

Invasion of the Bodysnatchers! 

For its powerfully evocative rendition of the slow movement of Mozart 1 in the health spa scene....  I'd clean forgotten that Mozart 1 was featured so prominently in it...

It's garden time.  We've had our first butterfly, that isn't a Large or Small, or Green-Veined  White.  A single Peacock was spotted on the buddlehia today.  And to prove it, here's a photo:-

I've a feeling that the butterflies are hatching too late to catch the main flowering period of the buddlehia, which is worrying.  We do what we can to delay the flowering of their favourite plant, but Nature finds a way, and the buddlehia flowers when it damned well wants to, thank you, and to heck with the poor butterflies!!

And in the rest of the garden...

The contrast of colour between the purple/blue Clematis jackmanii superba and the orange crocosmia is stunning this year.  The clematis is doing really well:-

 

And a close-up of a rather nice herbaceous potentilla that's in bloom just now:-

 

My only disaster to report is that I managed to pull up my surviving Helleboris Foetidus while weeding this morning.  Its leaves came away at the crown of the plant.  Now, this really shouldn't happen with a healthy plant, so I've a feeling that it was about to die, anyway. 

Note to self:  Helleborus Foetidus is very pretty, but it's an awkward cus to grow and it rots easily.  If I try planting it again, I think I'll try and place it in a less soggy spot... 

Butterflies...

First of all, I'd like to award the prize for the Most Inventive Use of a Mozart Horn Concerto in a Moving Picture Soundtrack to....

Invasion of the Bodysnatchers! 

For its powerfully evocative rendition of the slow movement of Mozart 1 in the health spa scene....  I'd clean forgotten that Mozart 1 was featured so prominently in it...

It's garden time.  We've had our first butterfly, that isn't a Large or Small, or Green-Veined  White.  A single Peacock was spotted on the buddlehia today.  And to prove it, here's a photo:-

I've a feeling that the butterflies are hatching too late to catch the main flowering period of the buddlehia, which is worrying.  We do what we can to delay the flowering of their favourite plant, but Nature finds a way, and the buddlehia flowers when it damned well wants to, thank you, and to heck with the poor butterflies!!

And in the rest of the garden...

The contrast of colour between the purple/blue Clematis jackmanii superba and the orange crocosmia is stunning this year.  The clematis is doing really well:-

 

And a close-up of a rather nice herbaceous potentilla that's in bloom just now:-

 

My only disaster to report is that I managed to pull up my surviving Helleboris Foetidus while weeding this morning.  Its leaves came away at the crown of the plant.  Now, this really shouldn't happen with a healthy plant, so I've a feeling that it was about to die, anyway. 

Note to self:  Helleborus Foetidus is very pretty, but it's an awkward cus to grow and it rots easily.  If I try planting it again, I think I'll try and place it in a less soggy spot...