Plants for the East Finchley Festival

Dear Readers, it’s all getting a bit frantic here at Schloss Bug Woman – I have my Open University exam on 5th June, so there’s a whole lot of revision going on. But on 22nd June it’s the East Finchley Festival, and Friends of Coldfall Wood have taken a stall. My contribution is to create some wildflower pots/containers for the raffle, so here are the plants, waiting for me to clear out a few pots and plant them up. It’s a lovely selection this year – we have betony and harebells, agrimony and knapweed, a couple of primroses and some meadow cranesbill. I bought them from Naturescape, highly recommended for UK native plants.

For a mix of native and garden plants which are grown without pesticides (unlike many of those that you can buy at garden centres), I recommend Rosybee – I’ve just bought some betony and some annual echium for my pots in the front garden.

But what’s this drama that I’m going on about? Well, I had a break this afternoon, and was idly watching the hoverflies. One settled on the nice new fence, so I decided to take a photo because I rather liked the shadow.

Oh dear. Spiders are so, so fast….

….but hoverflies are faster. Not today!

So many dramas! If you sit in a garden with a cup of tea for ten minutes, you’re sure to see something interesting going on. And it’s a good reminder for why I’m doing a science degree – it adds a whole new dimension to what I see every day. Bring on that revision!