The heatwave continues and the pond has dropped another few inches in a couple of days. I'm not sure if it a is a leak or just evaporation. If it is a leak it opens up the prospect of that bog garden I always wanted to make...
The parched conditions are also drying up the mini meadow with all the red clover and most of the flowers already going to seed. Only the later flowering Devils bit scabious and St John's wort are still blooming away, so they must stay. They make a tunnel which Max (and Nicole!) love to push through to get to the pond. Perhaps it is time to cut the hay, before it gets too dry to manage? The neighbours' cats have flattened most of the grass down (is there no end to the ways they find to annoy me...?) which is annoying from a visual point of view but may be irrelevant to the invertabrates who dwell there. Probably a lot less detrimental than cutting it, but it needs to be done. However it does make me worry about the orchids I am planning to try to plant...
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