Baby Fruit Trees

This area used to be mostly grass where the dogs played but now we are down to one geriatric Collie, Bridie, we've planted 11 new fruit trees, 6 lemon trees, some gooseberries, raspberries, blueberries and strawberries as well as a dozen or so new grapevines along the wooden fence.

The fruit trees in this area are:

A Royal Gala apple
A Peasgood Nonsuch Apple
A Granny Smith apple
A Royal Gala/Golden Delicious apple (double grafted) 
A Tydeman's Late Orange apple
A Splendour/Granny Smith/Royal Gala apple (triple grafted)
A Golden Queen peach tree
A Firebrite nectarine
A Moorpark Apricot
A Billington plum
A Black Doris plum
6 Meyer lemon trees

These go with the BlackBoy peach trees already there and a now very large bay tree which is around forty years old.   There are elderberries growing around here too plus a lot of "weeds"! The stinging nettles remain as the Red & Yellow Admiral butterflies lay their eggs on them.  

Roses In Bloom

It's been a weekend of roses.  First of all Dad brought me a bouquet of roses out of our front garden and then Andrew presented me with a gorgeous bunch of paeony roses.  Talk about spoiled!

Here's a few photos of some of them:

Azaleas

This azalea which is currently blooming in the front garden is such a pretty thing!

 

 

 And there's a red one as well:

Dahlias

They are quite easy to grow and delight with their wonderful colours.  Some of the ones which can be found growing here....

Butterflies

The garden here is frequented by Yellow Admiral, Monarch and - very occasionally - Red Admiral butterflies. They always brighten my day.  I have discovered that Yellow Admiral butterflies, like bees and other pollinators, have a great love of leek flowers.  

 

Below : 

One night a newly hatched Yellow Admiral made it's way into the house.  Of course we set it free but not before Andrew and I had captured a few photos!