Except for the potatoes in a tub [which look very sorry for themselves] I think John managed to rescue the others by watering them first thing in the morning and earthing them up again - the broad beans look bad, though. And some of the trees out in the field are showing terrible frost damage, the "Handkerchief Tree", the Snakebark Maple, two oak trees I planted and even the giant ash tree!
A sad gallery of frost damaged shrubs and trees:
All the little fruit on my three plum trees have turned black.
Hydrangea Pear Williams Christ Cotinus
Even tough things like the rose "Kiftsgate" above on the left and the Buddleja on the right have suffered damage, as well as my beloved golden elder and the Indian Bean Tree:
But although some of my greatly loved gooseberry bushes look as if they've had it as well as white and black currants .....
.... there is hope for some fruit later in the year. The red currants look ok and there are more flowers opening on the apple trees.
There are some other bright patches in the garden, and especially in the front garden and on the pergola the roses are coming along as well as the clematis.
But I was really going to write about our monthly walk with the Moira group. We were only 8 walking [our "leader" Edna was on duty all day officiating at the voting] and 9 for lunch at the King's Arms, and we had two little showers of RAIN - how exciting was that!
I had my camera with me today, so here are some photos from our walk:
We were just having our second shower when I took these two photos above. The small one on the right was to show the extent of Coleorton Wood, I couldn't get it all into the first shot. When John and I walked this route a couple of weeks ago we had trouble finding the markers and walked all along the edges of fields and the wood. But since then the farmer had been very helpful in marking out wide paths which led directly to the yellow markers.
The pond in Coleorton Wood - where we'd been doing so much clearance - is totally dried out as is the little brook feeding it. Let's hope that the downpours promised for this weekend will fill it up again!
Apart from that I thought I'd never seen the wood looking better, a picture in white and green, even the sun came out now and again to put a gloss on it.
This is part of the hedge in Coleorton Wood where John practised some hedge laying - it's looking very smart!
Group photos!
I couldn't resist taking some close-up shots of the cow parsley and the hawthorn; the latter is looking particularly impressive this year with thickly cascading blossom.
When we were almost back at the King's Arms we came across this lovely, pastoral scene:
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