Sarah L

Magical place with magical skies! Taken May 2018 looking out to Bass Rock #northberwick #Bassrock #EastLothian #Scotland

#FlowersOnFriday with wonderful candy shades hydrangea seen in a local garden, I love looking for the teeny central lilac flowers in pink ones! #bloomscrolling #DailyFlowers #vitaminN

#WildWebsWednesday stunning peacock #butterflies seen in the last week, done in my garden, others from Wales. Hoping for sun after a dull couple of days to tempt them out again! @WebsWild @savebutterflies

#FlowersOnFriday A macro shot of my pretty 'peach perception' #dahlias. The haven't done as well this year, lots of leaf, not many flowers, I'm loath to get feed as that tends to encourage more leaf growth. 🤔 #gardening #DahliaLove #bloomscrolling #DailyFlowers

#FlutterbyFriday With a few of my garden visitors yesterday, red admiral, peacock, speckled wood, large white... As you can see (2nd pic in from the top left) my buddleia is insane this year, along with golden rod and a huge unruly patch of lavender. @savebutterflies #Lancashire

#FlutterbyFriday with 3 beauties seen this week; top small copper, middle; comma, bottom; common blue. Wonderful seeing #butterflies having a great year, though please keep going with bigbutterflycount.org so the data can be collected. @savebutterflies

#FlowersOnFriday with a close up of my neighbour's stunning garden lilies.... Each flower is plate sized! #bloomscrolling #DailyFlowers #vitaminN

#JoinMeOnMyWalk As July ebbs towards August there was a distinctly autumnal colour set that caught my eye today, lovely sunny warm and dry though. Lots of ripening fruit, caterpillars, wildflowers & beautiful #butterflies. #Preston #Lancashire @ThePhotoHour #vitaminN

#InsectThursday 'Nothing to see here....' one from yesterday, from bright white flying around to excellent camouflage closed winged. A lovely large white #butterfly. BigButterflyCount.org #Preston #Lancashire @savebutterflies

#InsectThursday How am I supposed to get anything done, I currently have 5 yes FIVE peacocks on my buddleia plus 4 red admiral, with a flitting comma, speckled wood, green veined whites and large whites.... Heaven! 💚 @savebutterflies #Lancashire BigButterflyCount.org

Hmm, someone 🐌 is eating my #Dahlias! Finally the peach perception have flowered but I'll need to instigate slug watch again this evening! 🔎#DahliaLove #gardening #vitaminN

#InsectThursday "Go away, I'm busy!" 🤭 They don't all pose happily for me, this male common blue yesterday wasn't in the mood, but it's interesting to document behaviour regularly seen in the blues, rubbing wings together, thought to be a camouflage deterrent. @savebutterflies

#InsectThursday One of 3 large whites in my garden just now, on a perfect day for a #BigButterflyCount in #Lancashire. @savebutterflies bigbutterflycount.org #vitaminN #butterflies

#JoinMeOnMyWalk I wasn't expecting #butterflies today as it was overcast this morning, but on our Riverside walk at #PrestonDocks happily produced more variety that I expected, good for my #BigButterflyCount. #Lancashire @savebutterflies @ThePhotoHour bigbutteflycount.org

There’s some really lovely members of the Lamiaceae or Dead-nettle family, can you find one for the challenge this week? If you can, post your pics for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #Deadnettlefamily. Happy flower-hunting!

It's a #butterfly day! 😍🤩🎉🦋 Very happy to find #butterflies out and about at #PrestonDocks on the Riverside walk today and this small copper was particularly happy to pose 🧡 @savebutterflies @BC_Lancs #BigButterflyCount

#RoseWednesday meets #WildWebsWednesday with these stunning stripey #roses sheltering super stripey hoverflies! #Bloomscrolling #DailyFlowers @WebsWild

#WildWebsWednesday with an artichoke gall on a local oak tree caused by the wasp Andricus foecundatrix. Fascinating! @WebsWild

Wishing you a blooming lovely #RoseWednesday with this glorious nostalgia #rose seen last week. #Bloomscrolling #DailyFlowers #vitaminN

#JoinMeOnMyWalk from Sunday morning before the rain came. I did incredibly well to find #butterflies and beautiful flowers, and arrived home only a little bit drizzled on! @ThePhotoHour #Preston #Lancashire

#ThickTrunkTuesday a super beech #tree from #ErddigNT last Friday. @keeper_of_books #vitaminN