'Tis the first rose of summer................a couple of warm days followed by some heavy rain and the paeonies are out at last, however only a very few flowers on the honeysuckle at the front and no Oriental poppies at all this year. Lots of buds on the organic rose and one or two flowers.............also at least 9 frogs seen in the pond.................but it is, as they say, chilly for June, extremely changeable, although we did not have the pouring rain yesterday for the Jubilee river pageant, poor old Queen looked very cold and bored by the end..............
