High Winds

There's a Met Office 'Yellow' warning of high winds for Yorkshire and the Humber, which explains this morning's observation... We've had overnight winds averaging 20mph (Beaufort 5) and gusting up to 50mph. This has, unfortunately, cause problems with the fleece cages, for which—evidently—we have not solved the fixing-the-fleece problem. I think reinforced eyelets along the edge, hooked onto nails in the beds' sides, will be the solution: so long as they don't tear out. A number of the stakes have also ripped/worn through the top, so there'll be some patching required. Never mind.

To compensate, though, I have photos!

These daffs, puschkinia scilloides var libanotica (Striped Squill) and Scilla siberica (Siberian Squill) are around the base of one of the trees on the back bank: the scilla are still coming into their full display.

A macro (well, semi-macro, technically) shot of one of the puschkinia, showing the striping on the back of the petals, which gives the species its common name.

And a scilla: