Our house on the Images of England website

Some time ago, English Heritage announced that they intended to create an image bank of all the listed buildings in the country. Two years on, the project seems to be nearing completion and our house, along with the other listed buildings in the set of Salle Moore buildings, is now on the site at the following link.


http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/default.aspx

You have to type 'salle' into the quick search box and our house is the seventh of the seven images currently picked up by that search.

The picture seems to have been taken a few years ago when the front garden was much scruffier than now, but the house is reasonably well captured. Nice to know that our front windows have "cast iron reticulated tracery and segmental brick arches" and that our chimney is an "external stack at each end with triple moulded brick shafts."

Here are a few pictures taken just walking around the garden this afternoon - rather sunless and chilly for late June, it has to be said. Good colour though, and Naomi's overall structure is beginning to mature. 

Mixed border from the North. 

I like the combination of Phormium, Himalayan Honeysuckle, Prunus lusitanica and foxgloves in this view of the long border. 

Canterbury Bells are a bit top heavy now... 

...from the south 

Where Naomi should be most of the time.

Eight leaves on the water lily. Yellow flags have finished for the year. But the Primula sikkimensis is just starting! 

Exotic Foxgloves, they've been so good this year. 

The silent BBQ pit, waiting for better weather. 

Naomi's lovely Zinnias 

Dragonflies have discovered our pond

For the last few days these fabulous insects have been chasing around and mating above our pond. We saw up to six at any one time. Yesterday one of the females was dipping her tail in the water with a rapid flicking action. Egg-laying I guess.

The only place I've seen Broad Bodied Chasers before is at the pond in Foxley Wood, when we went on a guided walk with the ranger a few years ago. So it's good to know we are creating new habitat for insects associated with ancient woodland hereabouts.

Female Broad Bodied Chaser 

Male Broad Bodied Chaser