Flowers at Frog End

Bumble Bees at Frog End

Common Carder Bumble Bees (Bombus pascuorum)

Large Red-tailed Bumle Bee (B. lapidarius)

Red-shanked Bumble Bee (B. ruderarius)

Butterflies at Frog End

Red Admirals

Painted Lady

Speckled Wood

Small Whites

Moth Trapping at Frog End

 Autumn Green Carpet

Some of the moth species we got when we ran the trap at Frog End on 29/30th August.

Brimstone

Common Quaker

Cypress Pug

Flame Shoulder

Setaceous Hebrew Character

Purple Clay

Foxglove Pug

And this Jersey Tiger came into the garden in the sunshine.

Pond Dipping

 Some of the creatures found while pond dipping at Frog End.

Tadpoles

Baby Newts

Water Slaters

Southern Hawker Dragonfly larva - of which there were many.

Another Hawker Dragonfly larva.

An unknown creature that looked like a sawfly larva.

The Kitchen at Frog End

Helen and Ian's new kitchen and dining room is fantastic. Every bit as good as Helen's blog postings suggested and there seems so much more space. As yet I haven't taken any pictures that really do it justice. I find room interiors quite hard things to photograph successfully.

Frog End

At Frog End both front and back gardens are looking great and the new greenhouse and the decking (in progress) are yet more tributes to Helen and Ian's hard work.

After lunch yesterday  Helen showed me around the greenhouse.