May has gently turned to June and the garden looks and feels different. Everything is less blowzy and frothy, less full of exuberance and and is now more mellow, golden and green. The birds are less frenetic in their feeding and flying around. It seems that young have fledged and parents have more time to relax in the trees and hedges around the garden. The blackbird has time to run through his full repertoire of melodious song in the late afternoon, joined occasionally by the robin, wood pigeons and the call of the herring gulls high above.
We have ripe courgettes in the greenhouse
These three made a courgette bake for tea this evening.
The first of this year's strawberries tasted so sweet and yet sharp at the same time.
The plants are covered in berries as more and more ripen each day.
We have an elderflower bush which has pushed its way through the trees between us and next door.
The taste of Elderflower always seems to go well with gooseberries another fruit that is ripening in this warm sunshine.
I brought in just a few cut flowers from the Sweet Williams which grow in a pot by the back door.
You may remember my post about this plant the Sicilian Honey Garlic - here - the little bell like flowers are now turning their faces upwards and making tight cone shapes which I assume will be full of seeds. It has been a fascinating plant to watch over the last couple of months.
How does your garden grow at this time of year?
I think it'll still be some weeks before fresh local strawberries are showing up at the farmer markets
ReplyDeleteThanks, William - something to look forward to?:)
DeleteThose strawberries look good!
ReplyDeletethank you John, they are very tasty:)
DeleteI love those Sicilian Honey Garlic. So pretty, and even continuing into being, more unique. Hope they end up delicious...
ReplyDeleteThank you for mentioning and liking, my "new" blog look! :-) And since you like the colour tones, my gray print, must be easy to read. I was wondering about that...
I think the Honey Garlic is a decorative plant rather than edible - we visited a garden recently that had a whole bed of them and yet before we bought the bulbs last year I'd never seen them before:)
DeleteIsn't this life beautiful! And gardens are part of it... part of the beauty and goodness found on this precious world... I truly enjoyed reading all about your birds and such! ;)
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Thank you, I'm so glad you enjoyed reading about the garden, it is a lovely time of year:)
DeleteThose strawberries look good. The joy of listening to the birdsong, I love this time of year.
ReplyDeleteThank you. The blackbirds are particularly melodious at this time of year, straberries are lovely:)
DeleteHow wonderful, there's plenty to give cheer and tasty treats in your garden. 😊
ReplyDeleteThank you, it's lovely just to pop into the garden for produce for tea:)
DeleteLovely photos from your garden - I always enjoying seeing all the lovely produce you grow. Strawberries look delicious :) I love Sweet Williams although have never had much success at growing them here and the Sicilian Honey Garlic is just brilliant.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the rest of your weekend.
Thank you, the Sweet Williams didn't do so well last year and I thought they had gone but they bounced back this year and there are loads of them. So many flowers are doing so much better this year than last:)
DeleteLovely to see all that produce already. Just one small courgette forming on my outside plant and only a handful of strawberries. I have to be quick before the slugs get them. Have a lovely week. B x
ReplyDeleteThank you, we tend to bring the strawberies in a little too soon and let them ripen indoors otherwise the slugs have them. Hope you have a lovely week to:)
DeleteGreat to see your garden looking so pretty & productive. Take care.
ReplyDeleteThank you Susan, you take care too:)
DeleteYour garden is looking lovely and very productive Rosie. The courgettes look really healthy. Do you ever stuff the courgette flowers and eat them too? Most of my strawberries have gone over now. Many of them got wet and rotted just a couple of weeks ago. The few strawberries I have left I pick and eat warm from the sunshine. The Sicilian Honey Garlic looks fascinating! x
ReplyDeleteThank you Simone. It's lovely to have the strawberries straight from the garden isn't it? We have eaten courgette flowers before but not lately, nasturtiums too in salads:)
DeleteYou have such a lovely garden, it reminds me of my parent's, they are always growing different things and have an array of flowers :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Pam, my father always used to have loads of vegetables in the garden, all planted in neat rows there was always fresh vegetables when I was young, peas fresh from the pod were a favourite:)
DeleteOh, your first paragraph is so beautifully written, it paints the perfect picture. Your garden is very productive, well done. x
ReplyDeleteThank you Mrs T, it is lovely to have some goodies from the garden, usually courgettes and strawberries at this time of year followed by tomatoes and potatoes:)
DeleteYour garden looks absolutely beautiful, Rosie. I love the sights of summer. Sadly, we don’t even seem to have had a spring. Almost none of the bulbs which I planted last autumn came up, the vegetable garden is unplanted and the planned flower beds are empty. The perennials that I bought about a month ago are barely surviving in their pots and my tomatoes wilted when I put them outside yesterday - it was warm, but too windy. I’m beginning to wonder if we are ever going to have consistently mild daytime temperatures and we had another frost last week! How I wish that I were in England... Marie x
ReplyDeleteOh, Marie it sounds as if you have had a long wait for Spring this year and that it has been exceptionally cold, I do hope it comes your way very soon:)
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