Hellybootwader

Hellybootwader, 9 days ago to Bloomscrolling

Pink, purple and blue flowers all out in the garden today.
Very windy but a red tailed bumble bee is still out feeding on the chive flowers
#BloomScrolling #bee #flowers

Red tailed bee on purple chive flowers. Lots of out of focus greenery in the background.
A blue eyed grass flower, the petals are blue with darker parallel veins the centre of the flower and the pollen are bright yellow. Pollen is dusting some of the petals
Pinky-Purple Corncockle flower with a paler centre and darker veins the sepals stick out beyond the edge of the photo. Background is blurry grass and a finger of a hand holding the flower still in the wind.

Hellybootwader, 13 days ago to wildlife

Spotted several of these latticed heath moths at a community wildlife garden today. Very delicate markings.
#moths #Mothstodon #MothOfTheDay #Wildlife

Hellybootwader, 15 days ago to Bloomscrolling

Gorgeous iris flowers at one of the local community gardens food forest areas.
#Iris #FoodForest #CommunityGarden #BloomScrolling

Massed purple iris flowers in front of frothy white flowers.

Hellybootwader, 17 days ago to nature

This female orange tip butterfly came to visit us in the kitchen today. Not sure how or why she got in, but managed to get a close up picture of the impressively camouflaged wings once released back outside
#butterfly #OrangeTip #nature

Hellybootwader, 18 days ago to random

Our Cephalotus plant is growing new leaves and catching the sun on our kitchen windowsill. I love the bright green of the leaves with sun shining through.
Nearly time for a new pot again.
#SavageGarden #InsectivorousPlants #Cephalotus

Older open Cephanotus- leaf bright green in the sun with a thin faint red edge.

Hellybootwader, 23 days ago to gardening

Has anyone had any experience of using anaerobic digester digestate (the solid stuff that comes out the end)? One of the community gardens I’m involved with has been offered a tonne bag full of it.
I think it can be used as a mulch but we’ve been warned not to add it too thickly. I’ve been gifted a small bag of the digestate today & it smelled a bit like ammonia.
Any tips?
#Gardening @gardening
#AnaerobicDigester

Hellybootwader, 25 days ago to random

#SilentSunday

Hellybootwader, 26 days ago to random

Friday flowers (kind of)- poppy heads with and without petals. The purple stamen look like fuzzy pipe cleaners laid on the top of the seed head.
#FridayFlowers

A red petalled poppy flower with dark anthers in the centre around what will become the seed case. Background is green vegetation

Hellybootwader, 30 days ago to random

Fungus on a piece of mossy wood in the garden
Edited as fungus name was given in comments as Lycogala epidendrum
#mosstodon #mushtodon #fungi

Hellybootwader, 1 month ago to random

Garlic mustard, in flower just now, one of the food plants of the orange tip butterfly (we’ve been seeing lots of those about this past week)
Taken on a windy day this week in Fife.
#WildFlowerHour

Hellybootwader, 1 month ago to random

#SilentSunday

Hellybootwader, 1 month ago to gardening

We’re doing no mow May again and the Daisy flowers in the back garden are enjoying it.
#NoMowMay #Gardening

Hellybootwader, 1 month ago to Bloomscrolling

Saxifrage flowers growing on our planted rock wall
#BloomScrolling #gardening

Hellybootwader, 1 month ago to random

Well hello little fungus gnat…
I’m very friendly.
#SavageGarden #sundew #insectivorousPlants

Hellybootwader, 1 month ago to Scotland

Rain coming in from the South, looking over the Tay River.
#River #landscape #phonePhoto #Scotland

Hellybootwader, 1 month ago to Bloomscrolling

Bluebells and greater stitchwort at the side of the Fife Coastal Path today
#WildFlowerHour #Bloomscrolling

Hellybootwader, 1 month ago to random

#SilentSunday

Hellybootwader, 1 month ago to Bloomscrolling

And later today I saw a male holly blue butterfly! Couldn’t get a decent photo with the wings open but was very excited that it was the second Holly blue in one day (a new record for me) the first had bigger dark patches so I could tell was not just the same butterfly coming round again.
I may have chased it around for a while before getting a close up photo on the Centaurea flower.
#HollyBlue #Butterflies #naturePhoto #Bloomscrolling

A far away photo of a blue butterfly with small dark patches in the upper wings. It is resting on a branch amongst dock leaves

Hellybootwader, 1 month ago to random

Delighted to get a proper look at the holly blue again this year. It’s only the 3rd year of being recorded in the area.
A comma and a male orange tip also visited the garden this morning.
#Butterflies #HollyBlue

Hellybootwader, 1 month ago to random

A fungi Friday find spotted today in Fife
#Fungi #mushtodon

Hellybootwader, 1 month ago to random

It’s great to see headlines like this, but hard to square it with the ever increasing rate of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere

“UK greenhouse gas emissions fell 5.4% in 2023”

https://phys.org/news/2024-03-uk-greenhouse-gas-emissions-fell.html

Hellybootwader, 2 months ago to random

I have a pot which is now full of moss ready to release spores.
I’ll keep the pot to see if any of the Scottish primrose seeds I sprinkled in it last year end up germinating, this way I get pretty moss too.
#moss #mosstodon

Hellybootwader, 2 months ago to random

This is the current height of my Scottish primrose flower. Not much taller than the moss capsules. Grown from seed in my garden, only found in the wild in the north of Scotland.
#nativeWildflower #ScottishPrimrose #mosstodon

Hellybootwader, 2 months ago to random

Moss capsules were catching the light on a garden wall the other day.
#mosstodon

Hellybootwader, 2 months ago to random

Ha! Just tried to hover over a photo sent in what’s app to get the alt text (I am sighted, and could see the image)
There was none of course, but made me realise how much I use the Alt text to get extra details, like where the photo was taken.
Alt text is great for everyone.