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Juneby Ken Clark - 08:49 on 21 June 2010
Ken's Nature Notes
Weather is still a bit hit and miss at the moment, some days it is like Autumn and then we get a brief spell of proper summer sunshine. It does make you feel good, a bit of sun, but of course you have to be careful not too get too much.
I have been enjoying some wonderful scents from the blooms that are out at the moment. A star in its own right for a great scent is the Rosa rogosa, a wild rose of very simple flower construction, one excellent example is growing along side the footbridge over Lumley Burn, leading from Panfield to Fence houses; this one is a smashing red, I have seen similar types in white, smelling just as good.
I enjoyed a walk today from Wapping bridge along the field footpath towards New Lambton, the wheat growing in the field is standing tall and green. It reminded me of the Russell Crow film “Gladiator” where he has returned from battle and is walking through the crop growing in the field near to his family.
Most of the flowers on the trees have now been pollinated and producing excellent bunches of seed. One of my favourite trees is the ash, now for some reason which evades me, I have yet to grow ash from seed, I have collected many a seedling which I have replanted in the tree nursery to grow on for a couple of years, but to get seed to germinate, well I usually let nature take its own pace. Most people with a garden will have a small ash seedling growing in it, and I have removed quite a few in the autumn period from friends gardens, saying I have this ash tree in my garden do you want it!
It is easily recognised before the leaves appear by its buds which are black as ash.
One of the most common wild flowers to me is the Cow Parsley, also called Queen Anne’s Lace, nice name, it always reminds me of my youth, which is now a very long time ago. However as a treat, whilst we were in Sunderland with my Mam and Dad, we would be allowed to buy a new pocket knife, these days this would be frowned on, however those days of innocence’s it was a great thing. The first thing I would do is use my new pocket knife to build a “camp” with this Cow Parsley, cutting masses of it for the walls of the new camp, great fun. So it is nice to have memories as you see these growing in among the trees.
In the garden at the moment everything is growing like mad, colours that are dominant are the purples and pinks of the geraniums and clematis.
Honeysuckles are giving off wonderful scents at the moment, but these gale force winds that we are having this month are really bashing the flowers.
I collected a few seed from some violas last year and these have germinated well and are now planted out and flowering, flowers for free when you think about it, just remember to save the seed in a paper bag over winter and next year you have more plants than you know what to do with.
I have been a little better organised this year with my Lettuce, so far I have managed to spread out successive sowing so as to have leaves to eat each week.
Tomatoes are struggling a bit, I tried to have a few different varieties of small plum types, and only two seem to be managing to produce fruit. It is always trial and error with gardening, some seasons are better for certain things than other seasons.
The month of June has certainly thrown every conceivable variation in temperatures at us, I suppose that is what life is all about you never know what is going to happen next.
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