Catherine has been developing a wildflower bed in our back garden. It is based on about 10cm of poor soil on top of the cinder of an old tennis court. During the last week, I did a quick audit of what is growing, plus a few insects that I spotted.

Plants
Black Knapweed
Broadleafed Dock
Catchweed Bedstraw (cleavers)
Common Chickweed
Common Fumitory
Common Lambsquarter (fat hen)
Common Mugwort
Common Teasel
Corncockle
Dandelion
Field Forget-me-not
Green Alkanet
Hedge Bedstraw
Hedge Woundwort
Herb Robert
Lady’s Mantle
Meadow Buttercup
Nipplewort
Oregano
Oriental Poppy

Ox-eye Daisy
Purple Foxglove
Purple Toadflax
Red Campion
Red Deadnettle
Shepherd’s Purse
Wood Dock
Yarrow

Insects
7-spot ladybird
Buff tailed bumble bee
Common candy-striped spider
Common carder bumble bee
Early bumble bee
Entomobrya intermedia (springtail)
Ground wolf spider
Migrant hoverfly
Thick legged flower beetle
Tree bumble bee
Willughby’s Leacutter Bee

  • Ground wolf spider
  • Willughby’s Leacutter Bee
  • Green shield bugs
  • Ground wolf spider
  • Buff tailed bumble bee on Red Deadnettle
  • Hedge Woundwort
  • Black Knapweed
  • Ox Eye Daisy
  • Thick legged flower beetle