The flitting flight of butterflies too can be seen as they waft above the beds and borders. The Lavender bed is host to so many bees and butterflies that I have lost count of them all. There must be hundreds feasting on the nectar.
I take this as a sign of a healthy garden and overall the garden is thriving. The heat of the past 3 weeks is easing and we have had some welcome rain which has added a freshness.
I still maintain that we are, in two years, where we were in five in our old garden. The plants have thrived and grown at an astonishingly fast rate due to the massive amounts of light we get here along with a good air circulation and sharp draining soil. Planting so close together has kept in the moisture at the base of the plants and the roots are kept cool too. The Lavender, planted in the poor soil we inherited and have not improved in any way, loves it and clearly the bees and butterflies love the Lavender.
23 months on from when the planting began here, the garden now looks healthy, happy and pretty much mature bar the hedges which still have some maturing to do. After so much hard work, hope and dreams, we now have a garden that feels like an established, proper, grown up garden and not one in the making.
Time, I think, to sit back with a cool drink and enjoy it along with our welcome guests of bees and butterflies.
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