Scent cloud of Honeysuckle Of course it is lovely to see the gorge, and our garden, change as the year progresses and the wheel of seasons turns. Yet I have to admit that I love our garden best in May and in to June when then the colours and scents of the flowers are best and the bees and birds are all around.
The scent in our garden mostly comes from huge unruly clumps of Honeysuckle, which not only look delicate and colourful but come the evening they kick out a cloud of scent you cannot fail to be hit with as you wander close by. Of course they do this to attract the pollinators and they seem to love it too. We gain in both ways.
The scent in our garden mostly comes from huge unruly clumps of Honeysuckle, which not only look delicate and colourful but come the evening they kick out a cloud of scent you cannot fail to be hit with as you wander close by. Of course they do this to attract the pollinators and they seem to love it too. We gain in both ways.
Our lovely new pond And then we have the newish pond. A project from last year mostly by Mary that has become really nicely established and this year we had plenty of frogspawn in it, then lots of tadpoles and now (we hope but they are shy) lots of frogs. They should be feasting on the slugs, along with our hedgehogs (yes, we have more than one this year). The base of the pond came as a lovely donation from Mary's mum as she moved properties, and this pre-formed liner was being used for her ducks to enjoy. Now, sadly with no ducks going forward, the liner was spare and we have dug a big hole for it and Mary has since built up the plants and habitat around it for wildlife.
Mystery tree And finally - well not finally because there is so much else going on - but for this blog, we would love some help. In the back of the garden is a beautiful but slightly exotic tree. It comes out in a delicate off-white four-petalled bloom for a very few weeks in June. The tree's shape creates layers of white up in to the air like cirrus clouds. And we don't have a clue what it is. Our garden was, some thirty-plus years ago, owned by an old gent who made the gardens a showcase. Lots of interesting flowers and shrubs, and lovely stone work and paving in places. He used to open the garden to the public on occasion, yet all we have is a few verbal memories from older neighbours. No photographs. Sometimes we uncover yet more of the lovely underpinnings as we garden. And certainly we have inherited some lovely plants. After the old fellow died for the next 20-odd years the garden became more unkempt. A young family moved in and certainly it is a big space to be maintained. So as we have taken stewardship and Mary has adapted things for permaculture, we have also cleared heavy trees and chaotic shrubs and as light has returned so oppressed plants have sometimes come forth to surprise and delight us. This tree is one, and if anyone reading this blog knows what it is we would delighted to know.
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