The Bee’s Friend At Warminster Community Orchard

Wednesday 13th May 2026

Lacey Phacelia flowering at the Warminster Community Orchard, Boreham Road, Warminster.

Lacey Phacelia is also known as the purple tansy, the fiddleneck and the bee’s friend. Not only does it attract bees but also butterflies.

As well as attracting pollinators it is also a weed suppressor.

Lacey Phacelia is a native of the south-west USA and north Mexico but can now be found elsewhere in the USA and in Europe.

The seeds only germinate in darkness.

Photographs taken by Danny Howell on Wednesday 13th May 2026.

Curious Cattle

Monday 12th May 2026

Today, on one of the northern ramparts of Battlesbury, by the goat willow tree, these cows were curious and for a moment happy to pose for my camera. Reminding me that 47 years ago I had cows of mine own grazing on Battlesbury – good times, good memories, but like most of the past it was, or so it seems now, another life, another world. Farming was a big part of my early life. I will always be a farmer at heart.

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