Blue skies and trees that shine with almost an iridescent green in the light of a beautiful morning. Even as I stooped to spray the weeds on the drive could not help but be captured by the beauty of the day.
Rod and his wife had mown the lawns yesterday, four dustbins full he said, the grass ever fecund, holds the dew of the early morning, although in one spot of the lawn there must be an underground spring.
Snail shells crunch underneath my feet and the thrush ignores me as it potters around. Goldfinch in the yew tree are feeding their young and balance on the wire just outside the window.
Gone are the cloud of buttercups, the hawkbit, and clover nothing now but shorn grass. But the roses are breaking buds, the lavender has a silver sheen as the buds start to appear.
So English, so beautiful: that particular shade of green,the mellowed brick wall,the large trees.
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Time if the year when everything is fresh and green Sue.
Delete'Tis a lovely spot there. I weed by hand (good for the waistline!) as I really don't "do" chemicals for weed control. Which is why I am struggling now I have cobbles and big chippings, but hey ho, I'll survive and the dandelions won't!
ReplyDeleteJune is a difficult month for me as I have to hide away indoors to escape the pollen. I've been put on a stronger antihistamine now (WHY didn't they do that YEARS ago?) and have my fingers x'd it will work. Still, plenty to get on with indoors.
There is a large amount of driveway. I do hand weed every day, but there are areas of grass I cannot pull. Pretty things like lady's mantle and pansies I leave.
DeleteLadies mantle - pansies - I adore both - who would pull them up\/ \my gardener if I let him but I bribe him with a coffee and cake.
ReplyDeleteThe pansies are the little purple viola ones, that come up each year Pat, very sweet.
DeleteIt all looks lovely and fresh. Earlier in the year we chose insect friendly plants and they're now beginning to grow and flower. It will be interesting to see what comes through. Arilx
ReplyDeleteWell my border is full of the bright yellow of creeping buttercup but the perennials are there as well, so I shall just leave them to fight it out betweenn themselves Aril.
DeleteThrush isn't really ignoring you, just pretending to potter around until you go so it can pick up those snails you have crunched for it.
ReplyDeleteEvery year when finding the flowerpots and black pots, I shake out the snails who have always accumulated so that the ordinary thrush and mistle thrush can find them, they even have an 'anvil' stone.
DeleteIndeed the sky is blue and bright. How beautiful. It reminded me that whenever I would come to Europe in previous years, the light there always seemed softer and more pleasant to me, here the sun is so strong and bright that we do not always know how to appreciate a beautiful day.
ReplyDeleteI expect because we have such a lot of rain here Yael, there are beautiful moments early dawn when the fields have a mist rising from them, all too soon gone though.
ReplyDeleteYou have certainly lived in a lovely place Thelma but nearly everywhere looks splendid on a day like that one. Flaming June - at last! I guess that your beautiful house and garden remain filled with poignant memories of Paul.
ReplyDeleteYes and that is why I must move on and start another adventure. The house now belongs to Paul's two sons and they need to clear all their father's stuff, a job luckily I will not have to do.
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