This is our view of the back garden when we sit on the lower terrace. In the year since we've been in the house we've spent hours planting up the garden to be insect and bird friendly. At the moment we have masses of annuals, perennials, vegetables, fruits and 'weeds' in flower - snapdragons, toadflax, pansies, verbascum, roses, marigolds, daisies, lupins, geranium (of some sort), violets, clover, buttercups, kingcups, nettles, potatoes, strawberries, blackcurrants, raspberries, even three orchids; and we have some plants kind neighbours gave us which we planted and have forgotten their names; and more are on their way - lavender, verbena, michaelmas daisies, buddleia.
I spent almost all of this morning and some of the afternoon in the garden. The winds were light. The air temperature reached a heady 21.5C - that's hot for this part of Scotland.
And I didn't see a single butterfly.
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