Foxes, Wild Flowers and Hares

Fox with her babies on top of the shed

Ha, I discovered what my fox was dong in the winter - she was having babies. The mum and two small ones  were asleep on the top of the shed this morning so no doubt I can expect damage in the garden pretty soon. as the baby foxes grow more independent. She  is back in the garden but much more wary of me these days. The picture was taken by my neighbour. 

Wild flowers growing in pots

The wild flowers I got for Christmas I have grown in pots because I don't think they would last long in the garden. How they will all do I have no idea but so far they are growing OK and if they find their own way into the garden next year, so much the better.  They are a mixture of annuals and perennials so we shall see. 

                                                                         Ragged Robin, in its original pot and growing in the grass                   The ragged robin which I left in the pot has grown well this year and sown itself into a crack in the pavement and also into the grass so I'm hoping for the best next year. 

My Felicia rose was so heavily flowered this year that it fell from the trellis and my son John had to pin it back for me. It looks fine now. 

Rose Felicia tumbling from the trellis

Felicia pinned up again

And finally, a  book I really recommend is Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton, a busy professional who moved to her cottage in the country during lockdown, found a baby hare with no mother and took it home with her to prepare it for returning to the wild. She found a whole lot about hares that nobody had bothered to find before and the book is fascinating.