In the garden - June

Some how another month has passed us by. The plants have been working away in the background and providing us with the promise of things to come, like our Red Falstaff apple tree and the Victoria plum tree.

It'll be our first year with the Red Falstaff, so we're muchly looking forward to tasting these apples. We also planted a Bright Future, but while it bloomed this hasn't resulted in any apples. Hopefully it will put on some good growth this year and we'll have an apple harvest next year.

In this past week the sweet peas 'Royal Family' have joyously thrown out the first flowers. The scent is magnificent and we'll bring some inside so we can enjoy the fragrance.

The performer of the month has to be our salvia, as through the daytime it is constantly covered in bees! It makes us happy to know that we're providing much needed nectar for these pollinators.

We're very happy with how well the passion flower is doing too. I'm going to do a seperate post on this as there's a bit of a story!

Our Dianthus 'Raspberry Sundae' has come out strong again this year. It has such a lovely scent that I'll bring a few inside - I wonder if it will compliment the sweet peas?

I also 'finally' got round to patching up a bit of path that wasn't patched by the previous owners. It's been a bit of a trip hazard for the past few years, but I've only just gotten around to sorting it out. I did think of trying to encourage our cat Toby to walk over it so we'd have a constant reminder of him, but decided against it!

I suppose there will be weeding in the next month, but I shall delay it as long as possible! To end on a positive note though - in the next month or so, we're looking forward to the honeysuckle and a recent edition Astilbe 'Europa' coming in to flower.

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