The whole year reaches for and aspires to the month of June. The days reach their peak on the 21st and Midsummers Day - June 24th is the high point of the year. So the first, most obvious but far the most important thing is to enjoy your garden as much as possible in every way possible. Do not let a moment slip by.
Read MoreOur garden in May can be better than anything else that this world has to offer. It is all the things we ever wanted or needed outside our back door, accessible, tangible and giving us so much more than we ever put into it. The tulips are sumptuously sensual and the fruit blossom at its most bountiful. The bluebells in the coppice will be fully on song and cowslips, forget me nots, honesty, wallflowers, camassias, and above all the almost unbearable intensity of the new leaves on all the hedges and most of the trees is breathtaking.
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