A week of settled
weather has wrought many changes, the leaf buds pet by the cold
weather have thrown off their casings and opened faster than I have
ever seen it done, and flowers of all kinds are opening so fast that
you can almost see it happening.
In the orchard birds
are busy now feeding their fledglings and revelling in the warmth of
the long lost sun, and the many small insects also in haste to make
up for lost time. Today I discovered that a pair of Robins have built
their nest in an old teapot,lodged among the ivy on the old wall and
judging by the racket when the Parent birds arrive with food there
are a goodly number of healthy chicks in the neat little nest.
I have been spending as
much time as possible in the gardens,it was at first difficult not to
be daunted by the sheer volume of work and my own increasing
infirmity. Gardening for me is a pleasure,not a chore and so unable
to bear the though of my gardens going to ruin I have,with some help
from my son made a good beginning .
The walled yard has had
to be completely re modelled after the problems with the drains and
the rats and although we are still awaiting the new shed doors I have
spent quite a lot of time positioning containers, sowing seed and
planting out new additions.
The grass pathways in
the front garden have been mowed and edged and the beds weeded and
the difference this has made is amazing. With its newly strimmed
paths the orchard is glorious this year,filled with fragrant fruit
blossom and the scent of bluebell which carpet the orchard floor at
this time of the year. Our honey bees are busy among the apple
blossom and the bumble bees are getting high on the pollen from our
many Rosemary bushes.
I mean to tend the
orchard until the day the bulldozers arrive,quite what I shall do
when that day dawns I cannot say. For now all is calm and for that I
am thankful.
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