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Cutting it a bit fine!

We were in Somerset last weekend, where the lanes are looking spectacular, billowing with cow parsley and may blossom.  As we journeyed down the motorway, from north to south, I could see how the hawthorn bushes progressed from reluctant blossom to full blown flowers by the time we reached the Midlands.

Back home now, and finally the hawthorn is beginning to flower.  It's still May, just, and we probably have two or three weeks to enjoy the hedgerows looking their very best.  

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  1. Hope you are all well and enjoyed your time down south? Blossom looks beautiful. Happy summer! x

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