For those of you that know me will know that from the start of June I’m on tender hooks awaiting the magnificent lavender at the Mayfield Lavender fields to raise its pretty purple head.
I never fail to get excited by the sight and can visit time and time again and never get bored.
We don’t normally visit as early in the year as this, but after seeing a Facebook post inlisting the help of ‘beetle busters’ I knew I had to get over there with the boys.
The lavender is being eaten away by the greedy rosemary beetles which are listed in the top ten plant pests.
All that is required is for you to pick up a jam jar from the shop and go out on the hunt.
We didn’t have much success as number four wasn’t in the best of moods and refused to go to far into the fields today, but number five had great fun trying to capture anything he could!
I was gutted that I didn’t take a camera along today as I underestimated how pretty the fields were already.
I have to say one of my highlights was this lonely poppy peaking its red head through a sea of purple.
We had another spectacular afternoon aside from the moaning from number four and would highly recommend coming over to do some beetle hunting yourselves.
Even though we didn’t have much success the boys still got a sweet for trying hard and I treated them to an ice cream so I could sit and take in the splendid sight for that little bit longer!
I have a photo shoot with the kids here in a couple of weeks, so thank you to you and your kids for protecting the Lavender for us! x
Oh really! It’s such a wonderful plan isn’t it? Xx