As I often do, I joined Crafty Green Boyfriend for a lunchtime walk round Corstorphine Hill. The colours of the ragwort, rosebay willow herb and foxgloves are vibrant in the bright sunshine
We saw a couple of ringlet butterflies and a red admiral, which we will record for the
Big Butterfly Count, which starts today and lasts until 6 August.
We also picked quite a lot of raspberries. Crafty Green Boyfriend's mother makes excellent raspberry jam, but I always like to eat some of the berries as I pick them!
There's also a lovely spash of wildflower colours in the mini wildflower meadow that has been planted in Brunstfield Links, which I photographed yesterday
And there's some vibrant colour in the Crafty Green Poet Etsy shop with this dragonfly charm necklace
which is in the shop
here.
Your meadow shows how much later Scotland is - most of them here are past their best by now - all the poppies are long gone!
ReplyDeleteWild rasberries though!
Hello,the wildflowers are beautiful. I love all the colors. Your necklace is lovely. Happy Friday, enjoy your weekend!
ReplyDeleteScotland was so filled with wildflowers and I loved the fox gloves (but wondered about the name)
ReplyDeleteSuch lovely colours in your photographs.
ReplyDeleteI like the look of your necklace too.
Happy Weekend Wishes
All the best Jan
Great to see the hill so colourful. Any wasps around? The badgers used to dig the nests out in the summer and then dogs would blunder in to them; lots of cross wasps!
ReplyDeleteSage - no real idea where the name comes from....
ReplyDeleteJamie - very few wasps ...