Flowers and bugs
As one grey day follows another, my hanging basket just keeps on giving. Yesterday, this completely new flower opened. A double petunia?
This self-seeded plant which everyone decided was a Eupatorium has now opened some flowers. According to experts, it is ‘covered in butterflies in late summer’. Hmm. I’ve seen bees on it but no butterflies. It’s no weather for butterflies; I haven’t even seen one on the buddleja which so annoyingly hangs over the fence from the field.
These tiny, metallic-blue beetles are feeding on hazel. I think they’re Alder Leaf Beetles. I read that they started breeding in this country in 2004 but I’ve never seen them before.