Monday, 30 June 2025

June in photographs

Our egg producers - free range

Pignut in the Haunn field 

Ready for shearing

The Treshnish kitchen garden

Middle and East, still admiring the new roof on Middle

Rhoda shears the hoggs in June 

Waiting to be shorn

Working away at them 

Herdwicks in the field behind Duill and Shian

Heath spotted orchid

Greater butterfly orchid

Ferns 

Wood bitter-vetch at Haunn

New house - windows..

It took 8 people to lift this in to place! 

Final tweaks

Sunset over the Isle of Coll

Shieling from the farmhouse garden

Shieling at sunset 

Studio sunroom and Rosa rugosa 

Pignut gives way to Buttercup

Treshnish kitchen garden from the air

 

Saturday, 31 May 2025

Wild flowers in May

I am trying to catch up on the blog.. too much going on!! 

I wish I had done this throughout the summer as it makes a good pictorial of what flowers we have seen during May.   It is not complete, as I have missed out Greater butterfly orchid and Fragrant orchid, but they might appear in June's photographs.  

First Wood bitter vetch 

Wood anemone 

Tormentil

Speedwell 

Silverweed


Red clover


Primrose


Pignut


Milkwort


Marsh marigold


Lousewort


Lesser celandine


Lady's mantle


Heath spotted orchid


Dandelion


Daisy


Cuckoo flower


Burnet rose


Cotton grass


Bluebell


Forget me not


Ragged robin


Burnet rose and Bluebell


Early purple, Bluebell, Primrose 


Bloody cranesbill and Heath spotted orchid

Bird's foot trefoil

Marsh marigold

Not a flower - Painted lady butterfly 

Lousewort 

Butterwort


Thrift and Crottal

Thrift 

Bladder campion


Thrift and Scurvygrass


Primrose and Celandine


Dog violet 

Early purple orchid


Lousewort and Mountain everlasting