and neighbours came round in the evening to help eat the strawberries.
There's lots of fruit to pick
Flowers everywhere, what a pleasure!
Painting by Alf Stockham.
I bought three plants from the Great Dixter nursery.
As soon as I find a space I shall plant them!
Everything is so lovely. What a nice welcome home.
ReplyDeleteThankfully we've got great neighbours to keep an eye on things when we are away. Without them I'd be loathe to leave home in the summer months.
DeleteIt is beautiful! Yes it is nice to return to find the gardens doing well. I just finished taking pictures thinking about writing something similar. Oh the berries look yummy! I hope you are enjoying your weekend. B
ReplyDeleteIf I think of my garden I think of it like this, warm, sunny days, tasty things to gather and eat and sharing it all with family or friends. The reality is that it doesn't all come together as often as I would like!
DeleteSummer...
ReplyDeleteWhen we get a 'proper' English summer, i.e. warmth and sunshine, (and a bit of overnight rain for the garden) then it's pretty hard to beat.
DeleteIf I came home to a garden like that I don't think I'd ever leave!
ReplyDeleteOh, yes you would, but, like me, never for very long. (And wherever I've been and however nice it was I always say, "Oh, isn't it nice to be home!"
DeleteDitto what everyone above said...
ReplyDeleteAnd you say: "and neighbours came round in the evening to help eat the strawberries."
Can I be your neighbor?!? LOL
Welcome, Wildside, you could help me pick.
DeleteOK, that sounds like a deal! If it were practical, I'd be right there!
DeleteYour garden is beautiful and so many berries.
ReplyDeleteMerle...........
The strawberries are now all eaten, Merle, I should really add another variety to extend the season. The rasps and blueberries are still going strong and the blackcurrants are sweetening. It's a good year for soft fruit.
DeleteWhat lovely bouquets! Such a richness of blooms you have for the picking. And those berries look delicious -- what lucky neighbors you have! Thanks for sharing your bounty (virtually) with us. -Beth
ReplyDeleteJune and early July are the best times for my garden. In late summer it doesn't look so good once the flowers go over although it perks up again with a bit of autumn colour.
DeleteIt's such a pleasurable thing to pick flowers for the house.
Your garden looks so romantic with all those roses and delicious fruit.
ReplyDeleteThe camera is kind - you don't see the messy bits, Janneke!
DeleteGorgeous! We had a raspberry bush in our old house. So wonderful, despite the pricklies! Love the bouquets! it is so much fun to put them together, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteWendy, with your surname you have to grow some Scottish raspberries! When my parents married my father ordered raspberry canes from Scotland to plant for his Scottish bride. In the summer months when I arrived home from school my mother would never be around, she was invariably out of sight somewhere in amongst the canes picking fruit. She was a demon jam maker!
DeleteEverything looks so beautiful. I really love all those roses. What do you do to control blackspot? Birds get most of my berries. I just don't get up as early as they do!
ReplyDeleteMost of my rose varieties are fairly free of blackspot, the exception being Zephirine Drouhin, who suffers badly. She makes a very poor specimen, which is why I haven't photographed her!
DeleteMy berries- and brassicas - are under netting otherwise the birds would eat the lot!
Actually, sorry for my greediness. I have bowls of different types of berries of my own today! But yours look so good!!!
ReplyDeleteYou have cherries!? Swap?
DeleteUnfortunately, the cherries aren't mine... Frosts, birds and deer have done me in!
DeleteWe have had so many Raspberries this year that I will be happy when they stop producing and silly me, bought several pots of golden raspberries to add to the mix. Your flowers look wonderful as usual.
ReplyDeleteOh, but Doc, raspberries freeze so well that a glut doesn't matter. Strawberries are another matter, it's eat or jam and not much else.
DeleteJune and July, flowers are a delight.
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