Firsts

So, here it is,summer at last and with this glorious sunshine come the firsts; shorts revealing winter white legs, t shirts stretching across winter filled tummies and the sunglasses!

And too, the first lush blooms of the season, a rose or two, iris aplenty, aquilegias blooming their petals off, cornflowers, hardy geraniums, marigolds and the shrubs too bursting into bright pinks and purples. Aliums too are springing up all over the garden, often where I least expect them since I didn't make a plan when planting the bulbs last autumn. They are very striking and bear rounded heads of different sizes and colours made up of many tiny little starlets of flowers. Beautiful. Such a shame that they'll be merely flower heads by the open garden day. However, there is already one agapanthus in flower in the front garden with many more promised for later months so all is not lost.

The greenhouse is thriving with trays of seedlings waiting to be potted on or planted out. I continue to harden off some trays, have given several plants away and wonder what to do with those that are left. A bit of fundraising possibly on the open gardens day.

We now have a ninth gardener willing to open her plot to visitors, which is great - nine gardens all for £4, can't be bad. Looking forward to it and hoping for just a little bit more rain, at night, in the meantime. What are the chances?