When is a bee not a bee?

When it's a Greater bulb fly - Merodon equestris.  I'm not so sure if this is a newly emerged male or female fly or a female ovipositing/egg laying as she was clinging to the dying leaves of the tete a tete daffodil leaves.  She was very easy to see as I was weeding and just looked to be the same size as a bumble bee. The hairs on the body seemed to not be as fluffy as a bumble bees and they looked as if they had been combed with a slither of brylcreem cream.   

Now most of the time I don't really know one bee from another never mind the hoverflies that mimic them so I have to thank Ispot at the Open University for helping me with the ID.  This is one little Syrphid fly that I don't want anywhere near my snowdrop or daffodil bulbs as once the grubs hatch they will burrow into the bulbs and eat the middle section including next years flowers.  A while back I wrote about these flies in relation to snowdrop bulbs (the post is here if you are interested).

Merodon equestris
This could be a female Syrphid due to the structure of the eyes.

The RHS advise  placing netting over the dying leaves of the daffodils to prevent the fly from laying the eggs around the leaf bases - but for me that's just not practical as I've too many clumps. They also advise growing the bulbs in a shady location and this clump of bulbs isn't in the shade. The flies like to lay their eggs near the soil so having ground cover plants hiding the lower leaves of the bulbs could be a useful deterrent.  That could also be an excuse on my part to justify the buying of more plants!

Merodon equestris
There is something strange going on around the mouth area - can you see that too just below the forearms?

While we're on the subject of eggs and hatching last week the first of the Orange tip butterfly caterpillars (the post is here if you are interested)  were grazing on the wild mustard seedheads along the lade.  This little chap was about 1 cm long.

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Edit to add that Gail from Clay and Limestone is going to try to deter these flies by adding coffee grounds around the bases of the leaves as she has spotted this fly on her Bluebells.  I might try that aswell.  If you have used the coffee grounds or a different way of detering these flies please let us know in the comment section.

This is going to be a slow blog during June  as we are counting the days until our son's wedding and there is still lots to do.  I hope you'll forgive me for being very slow at returning comments and missing many of your blog posts for the next few weeks. Once I get on the internet time flies and I have such a long list of "to do things" before the big day that I really will have to discipline myself in regards to blogging if I'm going to get everything done on time.

Thanks again for visiting and until next time be on the lookout for those flies that buzz!

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Feed Scrapers ,Splogs, Copyright and Plagiarism

As I've said before the only feed scrapers that I tolerate on this blog are the original ones.  By that I mean the wildlife that freely roam in this part of scenic Scotland!  Now I know that it's not that pleasant when some of them make impromtu visits our gardens.  Some of them can cause plenty of damage like our local Roe deer, Grey herons and rabbits.  You can always tell where these locals have been as they leave plenty of visible evidence behind of their visit. At least with the wildlife there are certain things we can do to try to deter them.  Feed scrapers  leave evidence behind too but it's just knowing where to look for it on the Internet trail and knowing how to deter them! 

Wire Above the Gate 

  Netting over the Pond

Unlike the local wildlife who sometimes breach garden boundaries to 'scrape' for food for survival  these scrapers steal your blog posts to try to build links for their spam splogs or for making some quick money for their affiliates or AdSense accounts.  Then there are others who steal your images or hotlink to them and by doing so steal your bandwidth. Plagiarism, fair use and copyright mean nothing to any of them.  

Hand picking, beer traps or encouraging the birds to have a feast on the splogs slugs and snails.

Metal squirrel proof feeders rather than plastic ............... and maybe even a little vaseline - would  you agree Clare?.

Many of you know me from Nature Blog Network and a few weeks ago I was asked by Wren to write a detailed post on copyright and plagiarism. We had been alerted to the fact that one of the blogs on our network was in fact just a combination of scraped material stolen from other bloggers.  I can tell you that it didn't take long for that blog to be swiftly removed from our directory and then from Wordpress.

Today my blog post has just been published over at NBN and it's full of lots of useful information. There are resources listed for those who use Blogger, Wordpress and for those that host their own websites.  I would suggest bookmarking the post for future reference.

Feed scraping/illegal rip/web harvesting is something we cannot prevent but it's a lot easier these days to find out if your original material has been scraped and what to do next.  

Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory!

Miguel de Cervantes

Click on Copyright and Plagiarism to find out more. 

related information:

Register your works in the U.S. Copyright Office from Safe Creative

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‘Lighting: A Closer Look’ Picture This Contest May 2011

It's been such a long time since I last participated in any of the Gardening Gone Wild Competitions and I have come a long way in my photography journey since I first started submitting entries.  Last Autumn I  moved from auto settings into manual and I have found that I have to be so much more aware of the light and sometimes I use it creatively in my photographs.  This month the Picture This contest subject is "light in the macro or close up world" judged by photographer Alan Detrick.and I'm submitting my very ethereal photograph of the inner parts of an oriental poppy.  

When we think of an oriental poppy I'm sure we visualize those crepe paper petals with smudges of pollen inside. I have many different colours here in the garden but my favourite has to be the white one with purple blotches called 'Royal Wedding'. There is something just so exquisite when you look beyond those white papery petals with a little of the light radiating up through the lower section of the petals. The textures and colours of those inner parts reveal a new beauty of the flower to me and I hope they do the same to you too. 

Papaver orientale 'Royal Wedding'

Photography was once described as painting with light. - Anonymous 

My post on plagiarism and copyright will be published on NatureBlogNetwork tomorrow so I'll be posting a link to that here  with a little twist so keep an eye out for that.

Edit to add:  I was so delighted to discover that I won the gold medal for this photograph at Picture This. When I first started submiting photos to the contest in 2009 never did I think that I would ever win a gold.


Here's what the judge had to say:

This image is done with technical perfection and without loosing any of the artistic feel. The soft side lighting gives just the right amount of shadow to show off the texture. The color saturation and focus are crafted to perfection. The Gold Medal is well deserved

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The Hypnotic Allure

In the month of May many of the ancient Scottish woodland glades have an hypnotic allure as a frothy sea surf arises from under the tree canopy.  Everywhere you turn there’s a seamless carpet of azure blue native Scottish bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta).  

As the breeze blows the nodding bluebell flowers en masse they take on the appearance of  hazy blue waves breaking on the woodland floor.  

A sweet perfume infuses the air as if it has even permeated the  tree trunks and with  ever greater waves of intensity as the breeze ebbs to and fro through the leafy branches. 

There is the sound of creaking tree branches and the rustling of leaves as you walk along the little meandering path.  You listen to the soothing and relaxing sound of  the river gently flowing down  below.  

A  joyous woodland chorus of bird song is giving praise to their Creator in the tree tops above you. 

Hoverflies hover motionless in mid air at your knees as windswept butterflies try to keep on their original flight path.  

You marvel at your mesmerizing  tranquil surroundings and at nature’s beauty as you cast your eye over the smudges of blue on the sloping landscape. 

There is no one but you in those woods …… alone with nature, the shadows and the shifting sunlight filtering through the trees. 

Is it any wonder scenes like this have inspired many an artist, poet and storyteller?

I'm submitting this to the May 2011 Wildflower Wednesday meme hosted by Gail at Clay and Limestone.  I am so grateful that through her blog last year she encouraged me to appreciate British  native flowers and learn more about them. Bluebells are a good choice for a shady area under trees in the garden as long as you don't take them from the wild but buy from a reputable source.

Until next time……….

Related post

Wadding through a sea of Bluebells - my visit to Bluebell Wood one evening in May 2010

External pages
An online survey of Bluebells in the UK
Hyacinthoides non-scripta (bluebell)

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If it were not for the outside world, we should have no inside world to understand things by. Least of all could we understand God without these millions of sights and sounds and scents and motions weaving their endless harmonies. They come out of His heart to let us know a little of what is in it.  George McDonald

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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day: May

It’s May's Garden Bloggers Bloom Day and since most of you today will be busy blog hopping and time is precious I’ve decided just to show my favourite plants from one small area of the garden. Last year I had just redesigned this featured border and I’m delighted to see how well all of the plants have settled into their new homes.  I really like the shades of orange, red, yellow, green and burgundy that grow in this border and that’s just the foliage I’m talking about. The border faces north, east and west but during the summer months is lightly shaded overhead by the Laburnum x watereri 'Vossii' tree.

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The Blooms

Azalea mollis

This is a lost label Azalea mollis which has been in the garden for 8 years – it has no scent unlike the Azalea mollis 'Luteum' which grows in another part of the garden.  It’s colouring is nicely complimented by the colourful spring foliage of the Pieris 'Forest Flame' in the background.

Heuchera 'Spotlight'

There are many heucheras in this border and this one is called 'Spotlight'. The flowers are just starting to bloom and it loves the lightly shaded conditions here as the leaves will scorch in full sun.  You can just about make out it’s chartreuse and red marked leaves in the background.

Potentilla fruiticosa 'Red Ace'

Alongside the Heuchera  'Spotlight'  grows Potentilla fruticosa 'Red Ace' which is a small compact shrub that now will be in flower until November with its vermilion red flowers.

Euphorbia polychroma

Euphorbia polychroma was a new addition to the garden last year and I bought a few plants for other parts of the garden as well.  It’s the acidic coloured bracts rather than the tiny little yellow flowers that make the most impact at this time of year. 

Iris pumila

The little dwarf Iris pumila flowers are just about over now but I admire their colours and how their falls glisten like gold when the sun shines on them.

Laburnum x watereri 'Vossii' : photo taken 13th May -  Hellebores  and Narcissi  are fading while a large sweeping drift of Geranium 'Johnston's Blue' is just begining  to flower.

Just as the Ballerina tulips fade The Laburnum tree will now be the main focus of this border for the next few weeks. It certainly is well described as the golden rain tree and its display just gets better every year.

Poached Egg flowers / Limanthes douglassi

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The Limanthes douglasii is a native flower for many of you and it could become a weed here in the garden if I wasn’t ruthless with its offspring.  It grows in an area that is baked by the summer sun and where the soil isn’t so good next to the boundary with the public footpath.  In the background is another tough plant for those conditions - the variegated Euonymus fortunei 'Emerald gaiety ‘n gold'. 
 

Bee Fly / Bombylius major at rest on a Cercis canadensis 'Forest Pansy'

I thought I had lost my Cercis canadensis 'Forest Pansy' over the winter but finally some tiny burgundy heart shaped leaves have emerged.  I was about to photograph some of them for today's post when I saw a Bee Fly - a little insect I've never seen before in my garden.  It was totally oblivious to me and my lens and he/she just clung upside down resting on the leaves.  The bee fly has a long proboscis for drinking nectar from deep flowers like primroses and violets. 

That's about all I'm going to show you all today but please pop over to Seepferds Garten for the European version of GBBD,  to Carol at May Dreams Gardens for more GBBD blooms across the world and   Pam  at Digging for Foliage Followup on the 16th of every month. 


Update:

Scented Ballerina Tulips

Orange seems to have been a theme here this week though with all the downtime on blogger I'm not sure if you missed my earlier posts of the week.  Sadly my Ballerina tulips were fading fast in this border by the time the 15th of the month was approaching but if you would like to read and see more pictures of these perennial scented tulip bulbs and some photography tips on going manual please click here.  

I also was out hunting for butterfly eggs on Wednesday and found some belonging to the Orange tip butterfly whose larvae are famed for their cannibalistic tendencies and you can read all about that here.

Upcoming Posts:

Oh just before I forget - keep an eye out in the coming days for pictures of  a sea of blue wildflowers as I've just spent all afternoon taking photographs and video footage in amongst thousands of our Scottish native bluebells in our local wood....... and oh what a scent! 

I've also just written an extensive draft post for Nature Blog Network on plagiarism and copyright which should be published in another weeks time and I'll be linking to that post here at leavesnbloom.  If you don’t want to miss either of these posts please subscribe here  or on facebook  or in the footer below. 


Until next time.............

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Behind The Lens With The Dancing Queen of Tulips

The lily flowered "Ballerina" tulips have been dancing queens yet again this year in the flower border.  Last year if you remember I was literally tiptoeing through the tulips as I was redesigning that part of the garden.

 Ballerina Tulips in May

Well this year those same tulips  have relished the wonderful sunny days of Spring, enjoyed less tiptoeing from the gardener and hence no broken stems!   

 Copper colours show in the petals in the noon day sun

As a little recap for new readers these tulip bulbs are perennial and very reliable.  I'm a bit of a lazy gardener and I don't lift my tulip bulbs over the winter and without fail each year some varieties of tulip decrease in number.  As for the Ballerina bulbs every year they seem to cope really well with our Perthshire winters as long as they are planted deep. I just let them die down naturally after they have flowered but feed the leaves as they are dying back with a balanced liquid fertilizer for about a month.

There's an added bonus with these bulbs - they are scented and that's quite rare for a tulip.

If you are wondering what those long racemes are above the tulips you'll soon see at the end of the post. I took all of these photos at the beginning of May when they were in peak condition.

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For visual impact in a border the size of mine I decided to keep to one type of tulip and have bold drifts of them (about 9 bulbs per clump) so that the border doesn't have that dolly mixture look about it. 

I can thoroughly recommend these bulbs any for UK garden as long as they are not planted in a wet or exposed location.

You can read last years blog post - Tiptoeing amongst the Scented Ballerina's here. Below are the last remaining petals after a week of heavy downpours and thunderstorms. As you can see the racemes of Laburnum flowers have now opened.

 Photo taken 13th May - Ballerina tulips under the Laburnum tree one year after the redesign

My submission to Flowers on Saturday

Behind the Lens

I get many lovely comments about my photographs on this blog and on FB and I would like to thank you all for taking the time to leave such words of encouragement.  On looking back on last years photographs of these tulips you can tell how poor my photography skills were as I shot everything in automatic mode and let the camera do the thinking for me.  

A few of you know that I blog elsewhere on a site that is dedicated to photography but I thought I would mention a few little links here today to my garden and wildlife readers.

What's the secret in this years photographs?

Since October 2010 I operate my camera in manual mode adjusting iso, white balance, shutter speed and aperture/lens myself. If all of those words don't mean very much to you I learned the basics thanks to Ree Drummond - The Pioneer Woman.  Nowadays the  histogram on the LCD camera screen is my best friend and by reading that and adjusting my settings accordingly I get a very true representation of the colours I am shooting. 

Reflexed petals and tightly closed first thing in the morning

Other than a slight sharpen, adding a watermark, reducing the size and reducing the quality for the web nothing else has been done to enhance the colours of any of these tulip photographs - they really are this very vibrant orange colour with hues of pinkish red in the petals.  Maybe not to everyone's colour palette but I'm sure the late Christopher Lloyd from Great Dixter would have loved them as his books were a great inspiration for me in regards to being brave with colour in the garden.

If anyone is interested in taking their photography to the next level here is a great link to get you started on going manual -  31 Days to a Better Photo Series.

Thank you for taking the time to visit today and thank you Blogger for managing to recover my draft post.

"Ever since the creation of the world  his eternal power and divine nature, invisible  though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has  made. So they are without excuse." Romans 1:20

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Orange Tips on the Wing

Warmer temperatures this Spring have meant that the butterfly flight times have been much earlier this year than previous years.  One of the first sure signs that spring has arrived is when the Orange tip butterflies Anthocharis cardamines start to emerge from their chrysalis.   


This year despite our very harsh winter temperatures we have had dozens of them fleeting like windswept petals from one flower to the next in search of nectar since late April.  

Alliaria petiolata - Garlic Mustard

Dandelions, Garlic Mustard flowers and Lady's Smock are their favourite nectar stops along one part of the lade where the damp conditions seem to have encouraged  a colony of this species to thrive.

Cardamine pratensis - Ladies Smock

Tastes of Mustard 

They are the most restless of butterflies to try and photograph and so far I've just managed to photograph the male as he patrols the hedgerows probably looking for a female. I've got in the way of many a flight path recently and slightest shadow from the lens near their bodies and off they flutter to another flower.  

Male Orange Tip on a Dandelion

The male certainly isn't so easy to miss while on the wing as his orange forewings are very noticeable in the air. His orange tips are a warning signal to predatory birds that he doesn't taste so good. Any bird that has ever eaten an orange tip only eats one of them once and never forgets the experience............. Well would you like to swallow a big spoonful of mustard oil? 

He has a beautiful mosaic of green markings on the underside of his hindwings which is a great camouflage when he is "nectaring" on the wild mustard flowers.  

Colour Me Beautiful

Female Orange Tip - Wiki Commons

I've been patrolling the hedgerows looking for the females aswell and they are quite an elusive butterfly.  Their forewings are dipped in grey rather than orange but they too have the pretty mosaic of green markings on their hindwings.  Unfortunately they get mistaken for a common "white" butterfly by many people.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar 

By mid May the first of the eggs have been laid by the females so I went out with my camera to try and find some.  Well I didn't think it would be so easy!  The first clump of Garlic Mustard flowers I came across had a little orange egg just below the flowers then I saw another and then another!  If you are going out looking for the eggs make sure you look in areas where you have seen the butterflies previously.

Orange Tip Egg on Garlic Mustard flowers

Usually there is one egg laid on each plant as only one plant can sustain the ferocious appetite of the larvae. Hmmmmmmmmm another Very Hungry Caterpillar! - in this case about 6 garlic mustard seed pods a day.

In the light of the moon a little egg lay under a leaf

Cannibalistic Tendencies

Normally the female butterfly leaves a pheromone behind on the plant after laying the egg so that other butterflies know not to lay an egg there.  If it isn't detected on a large plant then that's when the cannibalistic tendencies of the species start to show themselves. 

Larvae Caterpillar - Wiki Commons

The first larvae to hatch will eat the other eggs on the plant and if one of the green caterpillars meets another on the same plant then one will eat the other as they compete for survival.  Oh dear I found 3 eggs on one large garlic mustard plant!

The Chrysalis - The Winter Retreat 
 

Chrysalis - Wiki Commons

They form a chrysalis in the hedgerows near their food source for the winter months and then emerge as adults once the first warm days of spring arrive.

Orange Tip Emerging From Chrysalis - Wiki Commons

..............and so the cycle of life starts all over again.

Edit to add: I originally had this posted on Wednesday............... the day I should really have avoided blogger like the plague as publishing this post became a dreadful nightmare and I thought at first was the new "blogger in draft" that was the problem. Talk about the weird things that happened every time I tried to publish on Wednesday!  Thankfully I found it unpublished in my draft section on Friday evening though it wasn't my final draft but "the bones of the text" were still there thankfully. I've lost all of the comments that had been left since Wednesday morning and all the photos were missing. I'm republishing it again this evening with a few extra photographs sourced from wiki commons along with my own.

Yesterday morning all of my blogs were missing from my dashboard even though I was logged in. Keeping calm I managed to find a link that restored them again.  I've bookmarked that page in case it ever happens again and you might want to as well - http://www.blogger.com/forgot.g. 

Sadly I spent nearly 2 hours writing on a different topic yesterday and saved it for publishing later this week and alas today it is nowhere to be found in my drafts section which is so frustrating.  It looks like I am going to have to write my drafts elsewhere like on windows livewriter as blogger has let me and millions of other bloggers down over the last 2 days.  I'm glad they have it up and running again and I live in hope that over the next 12 hours they might have found all of our drafts from the last 24 hours.

Dear Mr Fothergilla

 Dear Mr Fothergilla gardenii "Blue Shadow",

I am so glad that you've finally arrived in my garden as I have been waiting for your arrival since 2008 as you are such a recent newcomer to the UK from the USA. I hope that you have so far enjoyed your brief 8 week stay down at the leavesnbloom garden soaking up our glorious spring sunshine. Not many of us UK gardeners have yet had the opportunity to grow you in our gardens especially here in Scotland never mind hear about you but after your soon awaited appearance this year at the Chelsea Flower Show all of that might change.

Fothergilla gardenii x major "Blue Shadow" 

A sport of x intermedia ‘Mount Airy’. eventual height and spread  1.5 m after 10 years. 

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Planting Position

Up until now I've been slightly undecided about your final home in the garden.   I've read that you can cope with sun and partial shade but that you like to have your roots in moisture retentive soil.  At first I did think of planting you in a large pot with ericaceous compost but I really was afraid of what an extreme Scottish winter could do to your roots in a large pot  not to mention my somewhat lack of diligent watering of shrubs in pots during the summer months.  

Fothergilla with Omphalodes cappadocica 'Starry Eyes' in the background

I've decided that your final home will be about 5 metres further up from the  silver weeping pear tree Pyrus salcifolia pendula which has just finished flowering.   Sadly I had a Ribes sanguinium  "White Icicle" and Mahonia x media 'Lionel Fortescue' in that area which didn't make it through our harsh winter but you will be the perfect hardy shrub to fill that area. 

 Brunnera flowers

Brunnera macrophylla "Jack Frost", Brunnera m. "Looking Glass" and Omphalodes cappadocica 'Starry Eyes'  all reside in that corner so your striking flowers and ribbed leaves will compliment the surrounding garden plants so very well.  

Autumn Foliage

Your new home is primarily filled with  silvers, whites, blues and yellows in summer while in autumn you will add  to the fireworks display of foliage from the Euonymus alatus, Berberis "Helmond Pillar" and Azalea luteum  that already reside in that part of the garden.

 Finally planted in between Bergenia and Kerria

So far you've given me such a tremendous display of white honey scented bottlebrushes and I've been reliably informed that you're not called blue shadow for nothing and that you're a bit of a connoisseur plant.  I cannot wait to see those scalloped leaves turning to steel blue and then in autumn to those wonderful shades of russet, yellow, copper and orange  that your family of shrubs is so well known for.  

Flowers and Scent

I'm hoping that the sheltered planting position will trap that honey scent of your white bottlebrush flowers.  It won't be too long I'm sure before you become a great focal point in that little corner of the garden as it is lacking in interest for me just now.  

Kindest Regards

Rosie leavesnbloom

PS...... just to make sure your roots are happy I'm going to add a little of what I call "magic fungi" (Mycorrhizal fungi)  in the planting hole as a little treat to give those roots of yours the best possible start in my garden. 

 *****

Do any of you gardeners especially in the USA grow a Blue Shadow as I've been told that he's a bit of a sucker  -   is he?  as I am aware that other Fothergilla's are known for their suckering.  Well if he too is prone to do this there might be some "Blue Shadow" plants to share as pass alongs in the future!   

 In the shadows

If you're not all that patient it shouldn't be too long before you start to see a "Blue Shadow" shrub in your local garden centre or nursery if it's not already there lurking somewhere in the shadows!

Thanks for taking the time to visit today.

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