Note: House Circuit posts are drawn from the many 50 metre walks I make every day around our house.
It has been warm, but not heatwave level. In the early afternoon it was 26 C. The number of butterflies in the garden seemed unusually large and I noted 8 species: peacock, red admiral, painted lady, meadow brown, gatekeeper, large white, small white, green-veined white, brimstone. There are also commas and holly blues about but I did not see them today. Mostly they seemed attracted to the purple spikes of buddleia, but Geranium x oxonianum 'Claridge Druce' was also popular, especially with the whites. This is, perhaps, a good example of how important gardens are as there seem to be rather few nectar sources in the countryside round about at the moment.
The picture at the top is a painted lady and the one below two small whites courting on a grape vine leaf.
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