Ready for Chalkhill Blues

I was thrilled to find the first of my tiny plug plants of Horseshoe Vetch, Hippocrepis comosa, planted last autumn, coming into flower. I planted out 50 plugs on the ex-arable fields we are restoring to chalk grassland and it looks like over half have survived the winter, badger excavation and the cattle hooves. This is the food plant for Chalkhill Blues, which have been prospecting nearby over the last few years, and the much rarer Adonis Blue. I can't wait to be able to report that the 'Chalkies' have found the slope I've prepared for them - possibly a few years away yet.