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[angrboda]

Click picture for a better look.

This year Husband has decided to only do minimal mowing of the whole garden. No Mow May happened by way of not really finding time to get around to it anyway, and then it was so long and so late in the month anyway, you may as well pretend it was the plan all along. He has mown some paths but otherwise left the rest to do its thing. We have had an area like this close to the kitchen garden for a couple of years, but this year it's the whole garden.

Already I am rewarded with this mother shipton moth, which sat cooperatively still to get good pictures for identification. Bonus, it's not even marked off in the butterflies and moths book yet as a species we've seen!

Comments

[shirebound]

What a beauty.

No Mow May happened by way of not really finding time to get around to it anyway, and then it was so long and so late in the month anyway, you may as well pretend it was the plan all along.

Sounds good to me! :)

[cmcmck]

So pretty!

[redsixwing]

Delightful!

I love No Mow May. It's an excellent reason to observe all the pollinators who like my lawn long.

[minoanmiss]

Hoooray for your personal mini wilderness!

[turlough]

I'm always so happy to hear of people who don't mow their lawns. As a flat-living flower lover closely mowed lawns are the most boring sight ever in a garden :-) That's a beautiful moth!

[yourlibrarian]

That's great that you're seeing a payoff for the minimal mowing!

[silveradept]

Hello, fun moth.