My gardens are a riot of colour; we've really planted up this year to avoid that late-spring droopy untidy look after the early bulbs & woodland flowers go. Masquerade & all the other roses doing great. Lillies starting to show heavy bright buds. Bee garden and wildflower garden doing well. Caulis, leeks, potatoes, asparagus, rhubarb, raspberries, goosegogs and strawbs all doing well. Lawn looks a bit hairy but that can be sorted. The fruit trees, including the fig and walnut, setting hard little fruits and the grapevines looking better than they have for a few years in late May. The woodland bank is alive with campion, aquilegia and honesty and the bog garden and pond margins are shiny with milkmaid, ragged robin and water avens with meadowsweet, monkey flower, yellow iris and loosestrife looking well.
Herbs are going bonkers- I have a bed of dianthus covered by a rampant sage and the tarragon, thyme, oregano and rosemary are all looking great. Full speed ahead! Top of the happy list are the lavenders and soon the bees will be back on them, now that the ceanothus has bloomed its last!
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Bertie, Itchen Valley.
'We'll never see 40 celsius in this country'.