ARGGH! I just pulled a tick off my thigh that had actually attached. Little bastards. I don’t hate much but I DO HATE TICKS.
Ticks and hatred aside, I just have to share a few pictures I took yesterday.
The Stroll Garden has really come into its own. I just love it this time of year, but it is pretty special in all seasons. Right now the ajuga in the path is going great guns, and it is fully supplied with a complement of bumblebees and honeybees.
See that little spot of red at the right edge of the picture? That is a clump of species tulips. Here’s a better angle on them.
That strawberry bed that we constructed a couple of years ago has really proved its worth. The raising keeps the strawberries from being too wet. We have had no botrytis mold since then, last year we harvested 7 gallons of strawberries and are hastening to finish them off before this year’s crop starts booming. Right now it is just blossoms, but we have put up the bird cage already.
I must remedy a deficiency. I have no pictures of the bird cage that is over the strawberries, and I must take care of that. Later.
Meanwhile, the wisteria is absolutely lush this year. I think it enjoyed the mild winter.
When you go out there at sunset, it absolutely roars with the humming of the carpenter bees, busy enjoying the nectar.
I should do a post specifically on these guys. They are so interesting. I love them, and love having them in my yard.
In other news, our bee “hive” swarmed a couple of days ago. We set up a lovely hive for them, but apparently they have found other digs. Maybe next year. I’m glad they are doing well enough that they needed to swarm, and goodness knows we have LOTS of bees around the yard pollinating everything.
We even got plums pollinated!
Good news abounds.
Oh, I love the wisteria! Lovely pictures, as usual, HMH. Things are just staring to bloom here, thank God!
Oh, I’m sorry you got a tick! I am so happy never to have had either leech or tick attached to my person and I will do my utmost to keep things that way.
But your garden! It’s delightful to see it in photos; it must be a real treat to wander in.
You sound light of heart despite your tick! Strawberries have been ‘featured’ for me today: here, and someone gave me a punnet, and someone else, a small girl called Bella, gave me a strawberry Tic Tac.
A post on bees would be great! I do not know the difference between a bumble bee and a honey bee – I didn’t even know there was a difference.
I think it must be coming up to my favourite time of year in your garden…… it’s looking SO beautiful
WOW! Your garden is looking GOOD.
the wisteria! wow! oh, just to sit under that canopy of bees and…. and…. just sit. i could do with a bit of ‘just sit’.
your garden is spectacular…