After the glut of last year, I wondered if we'd get any this year. The wine I made was fantastic, so I've kept some back to treasure.
This cold June seems to have held a lot of things back, and there have been no flowers as early after last year. I think the wet March brought them on.
I've been watching the bushes and at last there are flowers. One variety seems to have much larger flowers and stalks compared to last year.
I'm hoping they'll bring fruit. Other bushes are just showing smaller lanky flowers.
I know we're all going on about climate, but I wonder what this cool is having on the bugs which the birds need to feed their babies on. My bird feeders are really busy.
I'm sure all this is to do with the slip stream, we had this cool spell in May last year. I've seen it's slipping, but we quite often got a cool spell in Austria.
Can't see myself picking for wine this August, so will the blackberries be so full of sugar. Oh the joys of wine making.
Then I saw this hedge!
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