This year seems to be the year of the frog as I haven’t seen any newts since last year when Lily Pond was overrun with them. But just by chance I happened to see an adult newt in the early evening, deep among the lily stems.
And just before I spotted the newt, I was startled to find a large very dark-coloured adult frog hiding under a rock. I’d move the rock a little, expecting to find some of the tiny ones I’d seen a few days earlier, so this one was a surprise. He waited until I’d taken a couple of shots and then plopped into the pond, disappearing under the pond weed.
I’m having to be careful now that the frogs have mostly left the ponds because I’m finding them all round the garden, in leaf piles, under rotting tree stumps and even hiding among some canes I’d left lying in the yard.
Frog in the yard
And to end this blog, here are a few more flowers. The first Hibiscus flower on the shrub I’ve moved from a plant pot into a border, and an anemone flower and buds, down by Tiny Pond.
FROG BLOG 