Spring greens

The greenest green outside the wall and the palest pink within it.

All of a sudden our field has nothing but deep green: grass and trees.
And yet, the tree we planted is showing signs of Autumn yellow already.

This field will be silaged next month. All the pretty wildflowers have meanwhile been cut down.

On the inside of the wall it is more colourful. I took a sample of the sweetest-scented flowers into the house.

• Exochorda macrantha 'The Bride'
• Primula veris
• Lilac
• Rosa 'Canary Bird'
• Clematis montana

This is a gorgeous Clematis montana with the sweetest scent. A friend gave me a rooted cutting and I never wrote down the name.

Appleblossom is back after a year's gap.

So glad our tree will be fruiting again, after we lost half of it in a storm two years ago, leaving the entire tree lying on its side with its roots in the air, all that with a few hundredweight of full-grown apples on its branches. That was what brought it down in the first place: much too heavy for the tree to support. It took three men to prop it back up. Last year we harvested one apple - this year we will be drowning in applesauce :-)



This is for Nick's page HERE

and for Denise's page HERE


I also linked this post with Our World Tuesday