Butterfly

I was sitting outside on a lovely day and this little butterfly kept landing on my top. I decided to take it off and drape it over the chair and take a picture.

Basement Garden - August 2010

We had a lovely sunflower just behind the crocosmia. The hosta's have also provided a good show but I'm not looking forward to them dying back.

Road-side Garden August 2010

I've had to cut away a fair amount of fern from the road side garden - I'm not a big fern fan and it grows through the other plants. In late autumn I think we need to cut back a lot of plants here as its very overcrowded. We've got a thistle-like plant here - Echinops sphaerocephalus, which you can just see in the middle of the patch.

Burn-side Garden August 2010

Lovely pinks and bushy water plants. The burn has been relatively dry despite the wet summer.