Back in the garden again - first time in 2014

So this weekend I managed to get out in the garden at last. First time since November! My attempts at any garden activity had been hampered by three major events:

1. A fantastic holiday in Tobago over Christmas and New Year
2. Minor surgery on my leg which meant I wasn't able to walk for a couple of weeks.
3. The worst wind and rain in the UK I have ever seen - meaning the lawn was just too flooded and muddy to be able to walk on it much.

Fences need repairing, the greenhouse needed glass replacing and the lawn in in some serious need of TLC.

First job of the year was to turn the raised bed over to wild flowers for the year. With the potential that we may be selling up and may not see the whole year out in this garden, the vegetable patch will become a wild area.

Wildflower seed packs - butterfly and bumble bee attractor plants

I bought two packs of wildflower seeds from the RSPB online shop. One pack of butterfly attractor wildflowers and one pack of bumble bee attractor wildflowers. Not the cheapest of seed packs but at least the money goes to a very worthwhile charity, and I love bumble bees.

Hopefully I will get to see some of these flower before we move!

These two packs covered an area about 4 square meters in the raised vegetable patch, minimum effort and maximum insect attractors. Did I mention that I love bumble bees?