A proper country walk

Along the road way a plant new to me

Common Agrimony
Pretty Meadowsweet
Resplendent Red Campion

Dragonflies by a pond in a nearby field

In Kate’s field a local contractor was cutting the hay which he will bale later in the week. It’s been an amazing year for hay (and much else besides). Click below

One feathered visitor and one human visitor

The french windows were open and Jeremy found this little fellow (a bullfinch) on the dining room windowsill

The other visitor had stayed with us a few weeks ago, helping to put up the wigwam canes and runner bean supports and had also earthed up the potatoes. He was amazed at the changes in the vegetable and flower gardens

Here he is holding an artichoke flower and admiring the runner bean growth We sent him home with some potatoes.