Summer smiles

Hurrah, midsummer and the sun shone! The garden is green, purple, pink and humming with bumble bees, who have constructed a hive in the yucca (which is sporting several spikes of red/cream flowers). (Does anyone recognize this bee?)

 The pond is crowded with frogs, including a very large sand-coloured one with distinctive markings down behind its eyes. Blackbirds have a nest and I am hoping there is a hedgehog home in the compound - early one morning I saw one making several journeys from garden to hidey-hole, mouth bursting with dried leaves.

                                                              

Courgettes and beans are beginning to fill the bins and loganberries promise to be prolific. It feels like an old fashioned cottage garden, it just needs some old fashioned summer weather!