Flâneur Gardening

>On Monday evening I went up to the garden again to enjoy the last evening of the Easter break. The “normal” mirabelle started blooming on Friday, and the purple mirabelles seem to be a bit behind, but now they’re beginning their show:

The flowers on the purple mirabelles are less profuse than on the normal mirabelle, but I quite like that. These pink blossoms dotted throughout the branches are quite delicate and charming, whereas that shade of pink might look a touch, well, like Barbie’s Dream Tree if the tree was entirely covered in flowers…

White flowers en masse, though, is always a touch more subtle to look at, and the normal mirabelle is now at full bloom, attracting hoards of bumble bees, honey bees and other insects, so there is a constant – and LOUD – humming when you stand under the tree.

I was especially thrilled to see so many bumble bees; we often see them one by one, but seeing literally dozens of them, hovering around the flowers on the tree, was incredible! Getting a shot of even one of them, though, was rather difficult due to the delay on my phone’s camera and their constant movement. Still, considering that all pictures on this blog are taken with a phone, I think I’m managing to get some decent shots every now and then, even if the bumble bees defeated my camera.

Last night I spent doing laundry in my flat and – more interestingly – making plans for the weekend. The drainage work should be completed by then, so first of all I need to set up the raised beds for the vegetable garden and quickly get some peas in the ground. Then comes the daunting task of getting the Ambitious Border started… I’m a little bit scared, but I need to finalise at least a rough sketch of the planting for the border so I won’t have to make everything up as I go along. (Especially since some of the flowers are still just seeds in packets or trays, and I need to make sure they will be allotted space to be features in their own right once they get going.)