
Sunshine and showers, heavy at times.
It’s been a relief to get some rain, after the exceptionally dry weather we’ve had since lock-down began. Earlier in the year I’d high hopes for the foxgloves, the young plants were so abundant, they obviously loved the very wet early spring, its hard to please everyone. But after the dry spell they were starting to suffer, looking somewhat stunted and under par.
But with a good dousing of rain they have risen to their full height and glory!
It’s turned out to be a vintage year for foxgloves.
Much to the delight of the insects.
- 30 Days Wild
- Angry
- Art
- Autumn
- Away Days
- Badgers
- Bats
- Beer
- Birds
- Bitter Blue
- Blogroll
- Boundaries
- Buildings
- Camper Van
- Cats
- chickens
- Christmas
- Community
- Crack a Smile
- Craft
- Derbyshire
- Devon
- Dogs
- Drystone walls
- dyslexia
- Education
- Environment
- Family
- Farming
- Fell running
- Field studies
- Flora and Fauna
- Flowers
- Food
- Foot and Mouth
- Found objects
- Garden
- Health
- Heart Sing
- History
- Home
- Humour
- India
- Insects
- Ireland
- Kew Botanical Gardens
- Lake District
- Landscape
- Leeds-Liverpool Canal
- Light and shadow
- Meadows
- Mind Your ps+qs
- Moorland
- Music
- Nature
- New Zealand
- North Coast 500
- Orkney
- Outer Hebrides
- Peak District National Park
- Photo Blogs
- Photographs
- Photography
- Poetry
- Pond life
- Rivers
- Sailing
- Science
- Scotland
- Sculpture
- Sea
- Sepia Stories
- Snow
- Soap Box
- Spring
- Spud
- Spud on Sunday
- Stone
- Suffolk
- Summer
- The Great War 1914-18
- Thoughts
- Three Peaks Yacht Race
- Travel
- Trees
- Uncategorized
- Villages
- Wales
- Waters Edge
- Weather
- Wild Atlantic Way
- Wild life
- Wild World
- Wildlife
- Winter
- WordPress
- World
- Yorkshire
June 17, 2020 at 6:35 pm
I did notice that there was a lot of banging going on in the sky this morning, accompanied by the usual downpour. It’s ironic that a couple of days before, I saw our neighbour giving his back garden the hosepipe treatment.
Here in the city, we tend to look on rain as an inconvenience (and more than that if you happen to be flooded as a result) so it’s nice to see that our country friends are actually pleased with the stuff and see it being put to good use.
Levity aside, I like the picture of the bee on the foxglove – nicely caught.
June 17, 2020 at 11:10 pm
We have had some welcome rain too but we weren’t so happy to be caught in a thunderstorm when we were out walking yesterday.
June 18, 2020 at 1:43 pm
There have been some heavy downpours! Difficult to miss at times.
June 18, 2020 at 11:34 am
There’s been welcome rain here today since the early hours. I’m not keen on foxgloves, but it’s certainly a good flower for insects. xx