Mating on the bog!

The Regent's Park Wildlife Garden features a pond and bog to encourage insects, amphibians and birds.

Over the past weeks we've spotted a number of different types of dragonfly.

Today dragonflies were flirting with each other in and around the bog!

Ponds and bogs are an extremely important feature in any garden to encourage biodiversity, so if you have space in yours, think about installing one.

Rain!

Following on from the last post about how important water is, last week there was some welcome rain for the garden. It may seen to us that it wasn't long since it had rained but plants grow best if the soil has a top up of rain every 2-3 weeks.

At the moment the weather is tempting out the butterflies in the garden, though there are still very few of them around compared to some other years. This morning a speckled wood and small white were flying in the garden, with many bees finding nectar in the raised bed.