Making elderberry flower syrup

A big bowl - stuffing with elderberry blossoms and 2 lemons - pouring water.
24 hours later - filter - take 1 &1/2 L juice and 1 &1/2 kg sugar - cook together - and pour into bottles.






The end result.

June 2010

Butterfly lavender


Iris sibirica


Silkies


My little bunny

New border

My son Sam is helping




All wood is gone, then everything digging




From left to right - Malus 'Golden Hornet'(Crabapple) - Forsythia -Rhododendron -Magnolia Stellata (star magnolia) - Hydrangea - Buxus - Spiraea

May 6, 2010 ---- The new border with flowers and various plants

Heleborus Niger - Plox paniculata 'Robert Poore' - Nepeta faassenii 'Six Hills Giant' - Rhododendron 'Catawbiense Grandiflorum'


Buddleja - Iris sibirica - Malus 'Golden Hornet'

Principle tasks: add soil conditioner in my herbs bed - black currant - red currant and herbs

rosemary - thyme and lemon thyme


Phlox - sage - strawberries - lavender and wild strawberries

Collect dog's hair for his nest :o)

Little trip to the white cliffs of Dover and Canterbury

3 April 2010