Early June garden blossoms!

It seems like blossoms are ahead this year - it has been so hot and dry, and everything has leaped ahead with some plants already bolting (like spinach).  I am loving the blossoms everywhere, and although our early lilac, forsythia, apple, mulberry, cherry and currant blossoms are already done, there are still plenty more!  I spent a morning searching out all the other blossoms in the garden.  Here are a few of the early June blossoms I spotted - blossoms are so hopeful, in that they show us the potential for providing us with veggies, berries, fruit, herbs and medicine in the coming weeks and months...(thank you pollinators). 

On the cusp

I look around the property here and see that we are on the cusp...this beautiful time of year when the yard is vibrating with new life everywhere.  All the fruit trees and berry bushes are in full bloom and are just moments from fruiting.  The grapes, cherry, apple and pear trees, the gooseberries, currants, and even our little fig tree are bursting with hopeful blossoms - and for us too, this is such a hopeful time of anticipation for the new growing season, and a time of making lists of new projects and plans for the summer. 

It's apple blossom season

This week has seen busy days of pruning fruit trees and rose bushes, transplanting rhubarb, cutting fresh asparagus and lettuce daily for meals, transplanting final seedlings for our sale, weeding the flowering strawberries for a more abundant harvest, mulching herbs, starting more lettuce, basil & kale flats, planting radish, carrot, chard, beets, harvesting nettles & sorrel, building a potato bed with strawbales, keeping an eye out under our hops patch for the daily fresh egg that our hen Buttons has taken to laying there (a nice safe nesting spot!)...and we also took some time to admire the beautiful blossoms in our yard and around the neighbourhood as apples, pears, cherries, and service berries are now in bloom. Urban foragers and fruit harvesters, take note now where the fruit trees in your neighbourhood are!