A very busy Summer

Wow, my last post was in July and now it's 21 August.  We've been so busy welcoming and looking after our lovely guests that the garden and this blog has had to take a back seat.

However, whilst being ignored things are happening to my plants.  One constant success are the two sea thistle plants - eryngium planum and giganteum.  The thistles are ever popular with bees and I often see them buzzing around.

There hasn't been a wide variety of butterflies but I very often see cabbage whites around.

On a grander scale some of our guests saw a couple of cormorants from their window in Room 17.  With a pair of binoculars they watched them for a while to fully identify them and then continued to watch them as they caused havoc with the seagulls.  I think I saw them over the north bay a few days later, again annoying the sea gulls.  From the link above, it is clear that they are resident in this area, so I hope to see them again some time.

I now have several armeria plants around different parts of our gardens and tubs and these continue to flower and also do their job in attracting bees.

August is always busy and obviously our time to do things like garden is limited.  But September (when the weather can still be lovely) will provide more time and more things will happen.