ABC WEDNESDAY - D

D is for Dilemma................... .

I thought at first...YIPPEE the letter D; this gives me a chance to show some more Dragonfly photos...then I remembered that I resolved that my A to Z posts wouldn't contain any insects or flowers that grow in the garden.....DOH!!!!....which means I can't show you these........or this collage of my Dog's tooth violet, Daffodils, Delphinium and Dahlia!!!!Of course I could always show you a photo of Denise (the lady who started this meme) with her Duckie.......but I'd have to pinch the photo off of her blog and that would be a Dastardly Deed..I guess I could post a photo of Steve and Lynn's Dog, Max....that should be good for a few ahhhhhhhhhh's.......but that photo was taken a few years ago and I'd like to post something more up to Date......so I went for a wander to Deliberate on what I could photograph and found this........a broken canoe that had been left in the river.................... so today I've Decided.......................

D IS FOR DUMPED!!!!

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Now that my Buddleia is in flower I'm getting so many butterflies in the garden. It's quite hard to get photos as they flit about so much but patience pays off sometimes. This is the first year I've seen these in the garden so quite exciting for me.

I think it's a Gatekeeper as it has 2 small dots in the black circle.................

whereas this one I think is a Meadow Brown as it only has 1 spot.........We always get plenty of these.................Green veined???? White.........

But I'm not quite sure what this one is?

Meeyauw gave me a link to a great site BudGuide.net but it deals with US and Canadian insects and I can't find this one there or on any of the British sites I visit. It's wings are almost translucent even when closed. I remember my pre-camera days when a butterfly was just a butterfly....it can be quite hard for a novice to tell the difference................

Red Admiral

This moth decided to have a doze at the base of my butterfly solar light; no doubt waiting for lighting up time!
Despite so many bugs in the garden they hardly ever "bug" me......I guess I'm not as tasty as the flowers!!!!!

I think this is a Coreus Marginatus...boy that's a mouthful ....its common name is Squash Bug which derives from it being a pest on squash crops in North America.



It's been a long wait this year but FINALLY my Eucomis (Pineapple flower) is coming into bud. Libby at Woodlands World has had hers in flower for a while; I'm hoping at some point my Brugmansia will show some signs of budding as Libby's flowers on hers are beautiful......I can almost smell their fragrance through my PC screen.

As our garden is quite shady and small and I'm such a plantaholic I'm inclined to place plants according to the amount of sun they need rather than concentrating on colour combinations. Sometimes though an area"comes together" colourwise just by accident. This small area is "accidentally" working so well with the colour of the Canna leaves, Lucifer crocosmia flowers and Bishop of Llandaff Dahlia.

Even the underplanting of Heuchara and Oxalis are picking up the dark bronze-like colours
and the Japanese Blood Grass plays its part too.

Once again it's a warm, sunny day here in my part of the world. So what am I doing blogging you may ask.......ahhhh well I'm blogging in the garden! And I don't get so stressed when my tempremental pc shuts down...I just go and do some deadheading or weeding until it decides to play again......

I guess that makes me a Garden Blogger in more ways than one!!!