June jottings from the garden

 

Cheating here, as this was the sun rising on Monday morning - 31st May - rather than June, but it's a nice photo and it's staying!  This is looking out from our bathroom window across to Llanelwedd with the quarry and buildings hidden beneath the mist.  Note the wonkey Monkey Puzzle tree above the tree canopy heading down the valley.

I had a rearranging of my kitchen cupboard decorations and down came two copper jugs (from stock, now polished up and back into stock) and in their place, the two new-to-me costrels.  The one on the right is the one that would have hung from the wagon.  On the left is my cherished Verwood pottery "Owl"- also for carrying beer or cider to the fields.  Verwood is on the Hampshire/Dorset border of the New Forest.

A quickly cobbled-together cushion for the Lloyd Loom chair- it is wonkey because the circular cushion pad I ordered was too high and not wide enough (though it measured the proper width) so I have saved that and cut the corners off another old cushion pad and covered that instead.  It's just for sitting on out in the garden anyway.

Ghengis - "Oooh, you bought me CATNIP!!"  That was an error . . .

Yellow Flag irises in the Pond.

Looking up the garden - our beeches by the pond are the ordinary green ones, but there's a fabulous Copper beech on the furthest part of our triangle of land.  The Rhododendrons are the common purple colour - apparently they are not good for bees - being toxic - but Bumblebees are ok feeding from them.

This deep pink Rhodedendron is on land belonging to the Big House (right by the gate to the property) but we can enjoy it just the same.

The btm of the Bumblebee!!

These Foxgloves were ones I purchased back in March and planted on the bank and they have just burst into flower.

Clematis montana wilsonii

Stuff in small pots needing to be planted, and another blue planter of Sage which is going to be transferred elsewhere.

The huge Buddha was here when we bought the house.  The previous owner may come and take it away she said, but I'm not holding my breath.  Anyway, Alfie is doing his own Buddha impression.

Sorry, not much of a post tonight.  I have been sleeping very badly, and been to see the Asthma Nurse today (change to stronger antihistamines which I hope will help me reduce my inhaler intake).  Worried by being told that the inhaled steroids can also cause Type 2 Diabetes (increase risk by about 32%) so let's hope we can get this sorted.  Keith also saw the GP about his health problems, and needs blood tests etc so we are both feeling just a little more mortal tonight!