Joel Ashton
@joelashton.bsky.social
#WildlifeGarden Designer & Installer for 19yrs | #HouseMartin & #Butterfly admirer | Once rescued a Cuckoo | https://bsky.app/profile/wildyourgardenltd.bsky.social ~ Book & Online Shop #NoMowSummer #WildYourGarden
Beech leaves looking their BEST right now…! 😍👌🍃🍁🍂
November 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Beech leaves looking their BEST right now…! 😍👌🍃🍁🍂
Great day today putting up boxes for two of my favourite birds - 1 x Barn Owl & 1 x Kestrel on my latest wetland project in #Lancashire. Both available via @wildyourgardenltd.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Great day today putting up boxes for two of my favourite birds - 1 x Barn Owl & 1 x Kestrel on my latest wetland project in #Lancashire. Both available via @wildyourgardenltd.bsky.social
My latest mini wetland project is coming along nicely in #Lancashire. 4 of 5 scrapes now complete and today I started excavating the main wildlife pond. Fingers crossed for a few dry days!
September 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
My latest mini wetland project is coming along nicely in #Lancashire. 4 of 5 scrapes now complete and today I started excavating the main wildlife pond. Fingers crossed for a few dry days!
Always a good day when you see your first skein of Pink-footed geese for the year! Especially when it’s over your house! 😍👌❤️ #PinkFootedGeese
September 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Always a good day when you see your first skein of Pink-footed geese for the year! Especially when it’s over your house! 😍👌❤️ #PinkFootedGeese
Scrape 2 of 5 now complete on my latest mini wetland project in #Lancashire. These mini scrapes are designed to provide a feeding ground for wading birds such as Curlew, Oystercatcher, Snipe & Lapwing and will sit alongside wildlife pond number 6 - a larger, lined water body.
September 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Scrape 2 of 5 now complete on my latest mini wetland project in #Lancashire. These mini scrapes are designed to provide a feeding ground for wading birds such as Curlew, Oystercatcher, Snipe & Lapwing and will sit alongside wildlife pond number 6 - a larger, lined water body.
Loving my new @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social level. This piece of kit will be pivotal in the creation of many wildlife habitats for many years to come, including my latest project - a new wetland including a 20m x 10m #wildlifepond with 5 x adjacent scrapes for wading birds in #Lancashire.
September 9, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Loving my new @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social level. This piece of kit will be pivotal in the creation of many wildlife habitats for many years to come, including my latest project - a new wetland including a 20m x 10m #wildlifepond with 5 x adjacent scrapes for wading birds in #Lancashire.
Amazed to not only see a new species of butterfly that I’ve only previously seen abroad, but also to record it less than a mile from my house, and to top it off, an even rarer variant call “Helice.” Ladies & gentlemen, I give you the Clouded Yellow…! 😍🦋
September 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Amazed to not only see a new species of butterfly that I’ve only previously seen abroad, but also to record it less than a mile from my house, and to top it off, an even rarer variant call “Helice.” Ladies & gentlemen, I give you the Clouded Yellow…! 😍🦋
Share if you love dogs. This is one of my 6 - Frank - A 3.5 y/o GSD/Belgian Mali cross, rescued from spending 23 hours a day in a concrete shed. He was beaten & abused. An absolute goof & I love him to bits. As humans, we don’t deserve dogs. They’re the best friend you’ll ever have ❤️🐺
August 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Share if you love dogs. This is one of my 6 - Frank - A 3.5 y/o GSD/Belgian Mali cross, rescued from spending 23 hours a day in a concrete shed. He was beaten & abused. An absolute goof & I love him to bits. As humans, we don’t deserve dogs. They’re the best friend you’ll ever have ❤️🐺
Just a Red Admiral doing its thing…😍🦋
August 8, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Just a Red Admiral doing its thing…😍🦋
I think I’m going to need more cabbages! 😆👍 #Butterflies #WildlifeGarden
July 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I think I’m going to need more cabbages! 😆👍 #Butterflies #WildlifeGarden
Huge thanks to everyone that came to visit my mini #wildlifegarden over the weekend @GlobalBirdfair. Met some amazing people & am now planning future projects for wildlife. Thanks also to all the amazing volunteers that make this yearly event the best of its kind ❤️
July 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Huge thanks to everyone that came to visit my mini #wildlifegarden over the weekend @GlobalBirdfair. Met some amazing people & am now planning future projects for wildlife. Thanks also to all the amazing volunteers that make this yearly event the best of its kind ❤️
Half car park, half lawn, stony ground & on a slope…this should be interesting! 😆 #WildlifePond #Northumberland
July 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Half car park, half lawn, stony ground & on a slope…this should be interesting! 😆 #WildlifePond #Northumberland
After what feels like a small age of seeing very few of one of my favourite #butterflies for the last couple of years, it’s an absolute delight to see the stunning Ringlet in good numbers in this #meadow, where I’m creating my latest #WildlifePond in #Hampshire 🦋
June 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
After what feels like a small age of seeing very few of one of my favourite #butterflies for the last couple of years, it’s an absolute delight to see the stunning Ringlet in good numbers in this #meadow, where I’m creating my latest #WildlifePond in #Hampshire 🦋
Well, that’s a first for me today! 😳 3 x heavily gravid female Adders under one piece of refugia, that is used to monitor this magnificent species, on a site that I’m currently making a #wildlifepond on 😍❤️🐍
June 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Well, that’s a first for me today! 😳 3 x heavily gravid female Adders under one piece of refugia, that is used to monitor this magnificent species, on a site that I’m currently making a #wildlifepond on 😍❤️🐍
How every lawn should look (IMO) 😍 #NoMowSummer #Yorkshire
June 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
How every lawn should look (IMO) 😍 #NoMowSummer #Yorkshire
I think there was an explosion in a Ladybird factory!😳😍 Actually can’t believe how many hundreds of them there are, currently in the longer #NoMowSummer area of my garden (which is rapidly turning into the WHOLE garden!). One of the many benefits of no pesticides/weedkiller 🐞
June 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I think there was an explosion in a Ladybird factory!😳😍 Actually can’t believe how many hundreds of them there are, currently in the longer #NoMowSummer area of my garden (which is rapidly turning into the WHOLE garden!). One of the many benefits of no pesticides/weedkiller 🐞
Recently, I decided to adopt two more Belgian Malinois from Romania. Sadly, I’ve learned that another Mali is in a desperate situation & I’m trying to raise funds to get her over to the UK. Can anyone help with my GoFundMe?👇
gofund.me/224c9130
Sincere thanks ❤️🐺🐕
gofund.me/224c9130
Sincere thanks ❤️🐺🐕
June 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Recently, I decided to adopt two more Belgian Malinois from Romania. Sadly, I’ve learned that another Mali is in a desperate situation & I’m trying to raise funds to get her over to the UK. Can anyone help with my GoFundMe?👇
gofund.me/224c9130
Sincere thanks ❤️🐺🐕
gofund.me/224c9130
Sincere thanks ❤️🐺🐕
May 31, 2025 at 8:39 AM
First of 3 House Martin double cups have gone up today. After unexpectedly seeing a pair prospecting the sides of the house last week, I thought it best! 😅 Here’s to the start of a new colony! (Hopefully🤞) @ukhousemartins.bsky.social
May 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
First of 3 House Martin double cups have gone up today. After unexpectedly seeing a pair prospecting the sides of the house last week, I thought it best! 😅 Here’s to the start of a new colony! (Hopefully🤞) @ukhousemartins.bsky.social
Just one of the many benefits of having a #NoMowSummer lawn/wildflower meadow, is seeing these voracious predators… This, believe it or not, is the larval form of our beautiful little Ladybirds! Enjoying the many aphids on offer in my #wildflower #Mowsaic of a #wildlifegarden 🐞
May 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Just one of the many benefits of having a #NoMowSummer lawn/wildflower meadow, is seeing these voracious predators… This, believe it or not, is the larval form of our beautiful little Ladybirds! Enjoying the many aphids on offer in my #wildflower #Mowsaic of a #wildlifegarden 🐞
Make a wish everyone! Have a lovely bank holiday weekend 💚
May 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Make a wish everyone! Have a lovely bank holiday weekend 💚
May 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
🌸 May is made for Hawthorn.
Hedges and hedgerows are bursting with frothy white blossom, filling the air with sweet, musky scent. A haven for pollinators and a classic sign that spring is peaking.
Take a moment. The May-tree is in bloom. 🌿✨
#Hawthorn #Wildflowers #Spring #NatureLovers
Hedges and hedgerows are bursting with frothy white blossom, filling the air with sweet, musky scent. A haven for pollinators and a classic sign that spring is peaking.
Take a moment. The May-tree is in bloom. 🌿✨
#Hawthorn #Wildflowers #Spring #NatureLovers
May 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
🌸 May is made for Hawthorn.
Hedges and hedgerows are bursting with frothy white blossom, filling the air with sweet, musky scent. A haven for pollinators and a classic sign that spring is peaking.
Take a moment. The May-tree is in bloom. 🌿✨
#Hawthorn #Wildflowers #Spring #NatureLovers
Hedges and hedgerows are bursting with frothy white blossom, filling the air with sweet, musky scent. A haven for pollinators and a classic sign that spring is peaking.
Take a moment. The May-tree is in bloom. 🌿✨
#Hawthorn #Wildflowers #Spring #NatureLovers
Greater Celandine is not a plant I’ve encountered much in the wild, so to discover it in growing in profusion along the verge outside my house, as well as popping up all over the garden is a delight! They’re also not related to Lesser Celandine & enjoy well-drained soil 🌼🌿
May 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Greater Celandine is not a plant I’ve encountered much in the wild, so to discover it in growing in profusion along the verge outside my house, as well as popping up all over the garden is a delight! They’re also not related to Lesser Celandine & enjoy well-drained soil 🌼🌿
Luna is loving her new role as “Head of Security…!” 🤣 #BelgianMalinois #Malinois
May 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Luna is loving her new role as “Head of Security…!” 🤣 #BelgianMalinois #Malinois