The First Day of Summer was drizzly and cool, but the sun came out on the Second Day and the flowers were beautiful in the sunshine!!!
FIRST – THE WILD FLOWERS!
The Arnica (left) are starting to fade, and the Northern Bedstraw (right) are just starting…
The Tall Bluebells (left) are also starting to fade, but the American Vetch (right) is just getting going:
The Bunchberry are at their peak and very prolific this year!
The Prickly (Wild) Rose are also coming into peak and, as always, there’s lots of them!
And this one… I hadn’t seen before this year, although Brian had. It’s a Cream-Coloured Vetchling, and we have a few at Redtail Rise:
And of course, there’s always a couple we are still trying to name…
ON TO THE GARDENS!
Grandma Bertha’s Lilac (left) is just a wee bit past it’s peak and the Cranberry (right) is just starting out:
The iris are blooming now… Bearded (left) and Beardless (right):
Half of our Poppies (left) are blooming and the Lupines (right) are just starting out:
AND… LAST BUT NOT LEAST (certainly not “least” in quantity😁)…
There’s that one flower that’s in our fields, our woods and our gardens… oh ya, and in our lawns too!…. the dandelion!!
