Everything is really starting to grow now despite having a little visitor who enjoyed digging up our seeds. The beans that we saved from last autumn that we planted have now grown big enough to be planted into the planters and are already starting to climb the canes. The strawberry plants are covered in flowers, the apple tree has been full of blossom and our herbs are starting to grow again. This year we have decided to design our own labels for our sunflowers and you can see from the photograph below we have some lovely illustrations.
The brilliant news is that we have some Great Tits nesting in one of our boxes and we have enjoyed watching them taking in nest building material; and then last week we saw the mother feeding one of the babies through the entrance hole.
We are leaving cutting the grass in the wildlife garden for as long as we can to let the insects make the most of the daisies and dandelions. The crab apple is also continually buzzing with the sound of visiting bees.
