My garden – Page 4 – Jill Orme Photography

11 Apr 2026

Four by four

by JDO | posted in: Butterflies, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

Back on the last day of March, the Speckled Wood was the fourth butterfly to be added to my 2026 butterfly list (since then I’ve also seen the first Holly Blue and the first Orange Tip of the year, though … Continued

4 Apr 2026

Honeywort bee

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

After we’d finished our Saturday morning chores, R and I went into Stratford so I could pick up a new 5TB hard drive for my raw files. Then we had lunch at BTP, where I’ve become mildly addicted to their … Continued

2 Apr 2026

Stalker

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

Yes, I know. Please don’t @ me. Today Karma decided that R had suffered alone for long enough, and it was time I was also given some stressful, tedious and expensive nonsense to sort out, alongside all the other stuff … Continued

1 Apr 2026

Pinch punch

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

How can it be April already?? Especially given that I still seem to be bogged down in January’s tasks. I need to sort my life out, and soon. Sigh. I did my best today, spending most of it alternately excavating … Continued

31 Mar 2026

Newbee

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

Today’s good news in the garden was the appearance of the first first-brood Speckled Wood of the year, shortly followed by two male Mason Bees, which sat (unusually co-operatively) on the same patch of honeysuckle, and allowed me to compare … Continued

28 Mar 2026

Highs and lows

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

Concert day involved the usual mad dash to get all my normal Saturday chores done before I had to go over to Campden for final rehearsal, with the added complication today that we needed to make up beds for the … Continued

25 Mar 2026

Spotty

by JDO | posted in: Flies, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

I’d hate you to look at this photo and think that the weather had dramatically improved since yesterday: it was perishing, and for most of the day it was at best overcast as well. This afternoon we had a rain … Continued

24 Mar 2026

Ginger

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

It was a horrible morning: cold and mizzly, with a fierce, swirling wind. This wan’t enough to keep the Plumpies at home, their schedule for completing their life tasks being pretty inflexible, and there were several being blown around the … Continued

23 Mar 2026

Favourite

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

I tried to make myself feature the humongous Common Carder queen in my second photo – I really did. But you have to learn to accept your limitations, and one of mine is that however much I love other bees … Continued

21 Mar 2026

Blue boy

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

Unusually, out of the two hundred or so photos I took today, the first turned out to be my favourite. It’s not that I haven’t posted bees on grape hyacinths before, or Common Mourning Bees, or even Common Bees on … Continued

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