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Garden notes, 10 June 2019

The running wave has been languishing in hospital for eight days with flu aggravated asthma, rather hoping that the garden would have been becoming more colourful in her absence.  Not so!  The weather over the past week has been cold, grey and rainy, so when I got home last night I wasn't entirely surprised to see that things had barely moved since last weekend.  Lots of buds and promise, but not much colour.  On the upside - it is all still to come!

However, today has been glorious and there have been dozens of bumblebees buzzing around the plants in the garden.  It really was a case of a bee-loud garden!
In the outer garden some of the wild flowers are beginning to bloom, long awaited and lovely!

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