We were sitting out, R my sister and her hubby when suddenly we saw a bird fly up to the gable above us.
No swallows but we have house martins - about time.
And a roe stag has taken up residence in the wood reclining on the top path. Probably glad I mowed it!
2022 is a goosegrass year - everywhere cleavers, sticky stems, in my pockets, in my pockets, in my . .
Anyway, to the garden. Most of the soft fruit already eaten by the blackbirds and thrushes, managed to salvage a few blackcurrants and goosegogs. There are a few plums and damsons and the greengage has fruit.What is that I was asked. That is Clematis New Love, I think, bought many years ago from Muncaster Castle when they has a garden centre.
Elsewhere the anthemis is doing well, I have put in the erigeron P gave us, the rue is eight feet tall, the lilium regale are out and, of course there are roses.
I do go on about white in the garden but it sets off so much else like this white lavender and a campanula creeping in at the top right. We have other whites like the roses and off-whites like the astrantias and veronica.Sometimes there are surprising successes - the Geranium Ann Folkard has gone rampant.
And all is not just colour but form and shape - alliums in flower and seedbeds like the purple sensation and the camassias.
Now the buddleias are all out but there arena flying flowers on them - where are the butterflies? We just have a few whites, the odd brown and speckled wood so far, fingers crossed.
Today is Thursday and not very hot here but they predict a heatwave - we wait.
Is the stag a young one?
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