General view of a wild garden in flower its first year 26th June 2023

Waste Ground to Wild Garden 15

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This is the 15th post about the transition of a piece of waste ground, with an assemblage of mostly wild native plants, into a designated wild garden. My next visits to the new wild garden were at the end of June this year. In the few weeks that I had been away, the growth was even more prolific and the flowers were out in abundance. Some plants were even finished and going over. It had been a very hot, dry, and sunny couple of weeks in England. Here is a selection of some of the delightful views and flower assemblages in the wild garden on 26th June 2023.

8 Replies to “Waste Ground to Wild Garden 15”

  4. It’s all about the insects and other wildlife, that’s supposed to be the idea, but strangely enough at the time of taking the pictures at the end of June, there were hardly any insects there at all. In the hour or so of each visit I only saw a couple of bees in the entire stretch. It is worrying.

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  5. It has been a worrying year in respect of insects. It seems currently as though they were just late in making an appearance.. There should be quite a lot around now when the sun gets high. I had the same experience at the period you mention.

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  6. Yes, I agree. It seems as if the insects made a late appearance this year, unfortunately after many flowers had already died back. There were a lot more winged insects later in July. It seems as if the emergence of the insects was out of synch with flower opening this year.

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  7. It was the same here in Germany. Hardly any bees and no wasps at all. I’d ascribe this phenomenon to the unusually dry June and July when we had no rain.

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