My life is one fluke after another, and we are not talking about the parasitic worm here. This photo was meant to illustrate the perfect partnership of powder pink aquilegia and dusky blue nepeta. Little did I know that this horticultural masterpiece would be photo bombed by a scene stealing ladybird. Don’t you love it when a plan goes completely wrong and is all the more better for it?!
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I think the ladybird might have been darting for cover behind the nepeta?Too slow!
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Those ladybirds are too shy for their own good. Nice to see them about!
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I found some today on my pineapple mint, clearly freshening their breath!
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Lovely pineapple mint! Very discerning ladybirds down your neck of the woods 🙂
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Shame the seagulls aren’t a little more discerning down here!
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Those ladybirds! Shocking!
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Quite!
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Can’t beat nature!
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So true 🙂
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