Learned this weekend of the beautiful Carmichaelia genus, Aotearoa's native brooms. C. stevensonii is a charming swap for a weeping cherry/willow look; C. williamsii amazingly textural, almost like a seaweed or succulent, but a shrub. Both butterfly food. Excited to see how they do in the #garden
I think this is a band-winged dragonlet (Erythrodiplax umbrata), perched on the tip of one of our obedience plants in the front garden yesterday evening.
tiny corner garden is looking good! sugar snap peas on the fenceline are starting to fruit and they are tasty! perennial common milkweed and self-seeded marigolds and morning glory have returned this year, and I've got cabbage and lettuce coming along. cukes seedlings keep getting eaten, hopefully the next round will survive
Let's go micro! As well as about 900 larger #moth species in the UK, there are nearly 2000 micros, some barely a couple of mm long. Many of these are from the TORTRICIDAE family, or leaf-rollers. Here are four that visited me last night: