It has been a particularly good year for hawthorn
and pink campion.
The foxcubs - there are three this year
don't be fooled by this tender only-child scene -
have trampled happily over most of the emerging plants in the garden,
but the runner beans have a bamboo barricade
which has survived their predations,
I think.
I'd better go and check.
Yes. It's working.
And while I was out there I managed a little garbage collection.
The new game is scattering other people's refuse
all over the garden.
We have a handy new recycling system which separates out
the food waste into smaller bins for the foxes' better convenience.
My Hawthorn hedge has flowered for the first time this year; I probably had it planted about twenty years ago.
ReplyDeleteYou have my sympathy about the Foxes but I also envy you because they are so beautiful.
I know how Smitonius feels about 'their' foxes and the presents of full nappy bags and hamburger leftovers. Perhaps I'd rather have a hedgehog after all.
ReplyDeletesorry about the scattered garbage, but how wonderful to have not fairies, but foxes, at the bottom of the garden!
ReplyDeleteYou have my sympathies - badgers are the bane of my allotment. However cute they may look, as far as I'm concerned their place is in the woods where their sett is - not digging up stuff and pooing on my allotment. On the other hand, I do love seeing them and the foxes out and about.
ReplyDeleteAh yes, nature and gardening: not compatible...
ReplyDeleteIf only you could train the foxes to eat slugs... two problems solved at once! Although your beans look remarkably slug-free Lucille. Gorgeous May flowers... poppies still look fabulous horizontal.
ReplyDeleteI know those foxes must be a nuisance for you but I was still amazed to see them in your garden!
ReplyDeleteThe photos of your flowers, oh my goodness, they are beautiful.