MAY IN JUNE?

 White is still important in the garden - the Sweet Cicely (beware of its ability as a wild flower to invade and spread), camassias and hesperis.

R has removed most of the over forget-me-nots and put them up in the wood where they will self sow a bit. This leaves spaces to fill. I must think about that.

 

Up in the wood, when the sun shines on the campion and pignut it is a delight.

The may is in full blast (now it is June)

A friend came for lunch and I took him round and down to the pond. We have newts in the pond I said, and there was one right below us! Water lilies and yellow flag iris are out - I like the variegated leaf flag iris most of all.

The weather has been dry so a little judicious topping up is needed - it is a good thing we have our own borehole.

Elsewhere the aquilegias are at their best, the first roses are coming out and the oriental poppies are flowering. There is the first flower on the cosmos but we are inundated with weeds - creeping buttercups, bindweed, goosegrass by the handfuls, or is it handsful, or hands full? I received a phone call to ask why we had not yet had our second Covid jab which we had some time ago. I ignored it. 

Having watered a lot of the garden today (Wednesday) it has rained a bit, of course. Mind you it might be because J washed her car this morning.

One part of the garden that pleases me is the small stand of white birches -

And at the end of the day we have sunsets especially interesting as I had forgotten the interesting cloud forms jet contrails produce - we must be having more flights.

And then there is wild life in the garden - newts, frogs and toads with the water boatmen, damselflies and whirligigs in the pond, rabbits, grey squirrels, woodlice, bank voles and pheasants in the wood, and then visitors - badgers, foxes and -