Winter's Coming

Poppy

It's getting colder and the dark nights are coming but it's sunny and crisp today.

Outside in my little wildlife patch there is still some life, which is lovely at this time of year and quite unexpected in one case.

After a summer of defending poppies from snails and slugs, this lovely flower is just about to open.  I would have thought that it would be too late for poppies still to flower, but perhaps it's taking the opportunity of flowering when there are hardly any snails around.



Also, all the autumn bulbs are now flowering and they look lovely.  They seem to
survive winds and today they are open and looking happy in the weakening autumn sunshine.  These crocuses are supposed to be bee friendly, but there are no more bees around (at least here on the cliff top where we live).  Anyway the last bit of colour is great.