Unicorns in the garden

When I removed the monstrous conifers from the back of the garden and started to rejuvenate the hedge I promised you: daffodils and snowdrops in the spring, bees, butterflies, bunnies, unicorns…

Well we have the daffodils and the snowdrops, pictured here with a passing fox, of which more later.

And there are plenty of roses

Honeysuckle

Autumn pyracantha berries in the making

A tangle of ceanothus, honeysuckle, self-seeded campion, wallflowers and sticky willy

Bees

But I never imagined we would actually find a unicorn in the garden. Is this a unicorn? Well we think it might be as it has a sort of unicorn horn, but it definitely also has some pig and cat in its genes somewhere

In this picture it is drying on the washing line after a good wash. I found it in the garden a few days ago, along with a lion:

How did they get there? Well we don’t know. I asked around the neighbours but no one claimed them. We suspect that the visiting fox – see top of post – brought them for us and left them behind. The fox clearly has an interest in heraldry, although possibly not the best taste in unicorns.

For the moment I am just pleased that the hedge is regrowing nicely and that the roses and bees are happy.