Alpines and foxgloves

Not just fruit bushes... altho it seams like it these days

Some get frozen and some...

get turned into chutney.

Spiced Blackcurrant Chutney (ready for tasting 19.08.08)

The berry season begins

Blackcurrants started to ripen last wk in June, so far 4kg in the freezer, slowing down now but reckon should total 5kg (not bad from 2 bushes). Redcurrants ready to start picking anytime now. Whitecurrents perhaps a week later. Glad they don't all ripen at once! Strawberries started last week, raspberries starting to come good this week. Quantities? ...they never stay in the bowl long enough to be weighed! Gotta be measured in some quantity of enjoyment - any suggestions? Gooseberries about .45kg. Sawflies didn't seam to do much damage but perhaps they did after all.

Intro

For all those who keep asking "How's the garden doing?" - The answer can seen visually (and perhaps heard later on) in this Blog. If no one really bothers looking then it's a diary for me and a chance to play with the camera and ambient sound recordings. For those who don't know, the gardens' in North East Scotland (Woodside, Aberdeen, UK) at 57.2 degrees North. Back garden faces South-West(ish) (260 degrees), gets sun most of the day, is about 10m long of which ~4m is lawn and ~6m various fruit bushes (a barren field of weeds when I moved in) and a bit of veg (which the slugs and snails very much enjoy). Mine's the plot with the dark brown shed and foxgloves,

Front garden (see below) faces the road and is 4m x 3m - roses came with the house and have been lovingly pruned back to the way they should have always been kept.

Photos taken from upstairs bedrooms.