At last, Summer is here!

[mumsisdaughter]

After some lovely sunny mornings followed by monsoon-type rain and thunderstorms during the last fortnight, we now have a period of settled sunny weather forecast, hurray!

A couple of photos of the back garden for those who asked for an update back in April, I think :)

Here are the purple/blue geranium/cranesbill/mallow and pale pink whatevers at the back of the pond. If you squint at the photo of some of the goldfish, you can see a few of the dark fry; one between the goldfish and the upper edge of the picture and three or four in amongst the weed towards the right. (The floating square contains barley extract to quell the blanketweed.)

The bees LOVE the purple/blue flowers. We've all 8 of the common UK bumblebee species visiting them all day long except for the rainy hours AND regular visits by real honeybees. No idea where they all come from!

Going outside now to read in the sunshine :D

Comments

[cloudsinvenice]

Your garden is looking lovely! I like the way the plants just get to spread where they want; when it comes to a personal garden to sit and relax in, I'm not a fan of things being too precise and straight-ruled. My mum's garden is like this and when we have our place we plan something similar. I mean, we'll have a bit of lawn, but I just want the borders to do their own thing.

The goldfish are brilliant! Such lovely colours, and they must be nice to watch. Do you ever get frogs?

[mumsisdaughter]

Thanks :)

Frogs? Over 30 this year in all manner of copulating heaps, producing seven huge masses of spawn. The tadpoles we've seen recently are big and swollen. It must be legs out time soon :) It's always a treat to watch them struggling to poke their limbs out through gaps in their sides; rather like when you have trouble threading your arms through a tight sweater :D

Hoping for dragonflies this year. The last ones were in 2012.

[cloudsinvenice]

I remember you talking about the dragonflies! :)

I'm impressed by the frogs - they get a lot of them in R's village because there are water-filled ditches all over the place, and on one trip we had a walk on a wet spring evening and found random frog couples in coitus in the park! They also sing at night in the summer; it's lovely ot hear...