Just a little trip about the garden at the very end of June ..
strawberries ripening in jam jars to protect them from our birdy friends,
valerian towering high above the fence and everything else,
feverfew in full flower now
and lavender just starting to pop.
Just been looking up '
cuckoo spit' .. you can see some on the lavender in the photo above, but we also have a little on the elder. Will have to look out for the adult froghoppers.. I like learning something new, and I like to have an answer ready when the little'un asks me something!
There's so much doing at this time of year and its such a joy to be out in the fresh air working with the plants and enjoying the sunshine. You can really 'feel' the wheel of the year turning over Midsummer as all the burgeoning and freshness and growing gives way to fullness, culmination, maturity. It happens imperceptibly and overnight, it seems and suddenly its time to be harvesting.
