June Flowers

Foxgloves, beloved of bees whose favourite colour is purple, are out in profusion in my favourite month - June, the air is warm, the countryside has exploded into colour and the hedgerows hide the little

wild geraniums,

 wild roses twine through the hedges

Heath Spotted Orchid

 

 

 

and it is the peak season for the Heath Spotted Orchid which loves the bog land and marshes. Sometimes it can be difficult to distinguish it from the Common Spotted Orchid for they can hybridise and sometimes they are just

tricky to spot hidden among the jumble of grasses

The wild jostles with the manicured golf course

This clipped lawn is for play (there is a football net out of sight behind me to the right)  but there is enough room for a rhododendron

 and of course no garden is complete without roses.  It is also the best place to sit out and eat the June's early

English strawberries. Not the supermarket ones grown to be robust for transport and tasteless but the sharp, sweet and delicate local ones. I've cheated with this photograph because they are not English strawberries as it is Antwerp Railway Station in Belgium where they are selling Strawberries dipped in a big vat of chocolate however look there is someone walking past wearing a Union Jack jumper. 

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