While I haven't spent a lot of my month of May in front of my computer screen (which is pretty obvious if you've been checking this blog and my Instagram page in the last little while!), nor really in front of my sewing machine, I have been hanging out with my garden tools at the lake... May is undoubtedly a busy gardening month, but I have never found it quite as busy at the lake as this year due to my new vegetable garden; in the past, I think I left my lake garden a bit on auto-pilot throughout May and didn't really spend that much time working on it until I settled myself at the lake for the summer at the end of June. This year though has been different as I have made many trips this month to the lake solely to work on my veggie plot and, oh boy, I'm so glad about that...
... because, honestly, aren't gardens in May the absolute best place to be?!... Everything is so perfect, green, and as fresh as can be. This is especially true this year in our coastal gardens because we have had a lot of rain leading up to the month of May which, as you can see in my garden photos, has greened up our landscape beautifully! I have been particularly smitten with the lavender I planted last year along one of the sides of our veggie garden enclosure which you can see above and closeup in the first photo; at the end of last summer, there was just a bunch of lavender shrubs planted in a row over the stone wall but, this spring, the plants are no longer distinct and have truly become a hedge! And, oh, what a fresh-looking hedge it is: in the loveliest shade of spring green showing all the promise in the world with little green buds swaying atop long graceful stalks... OK, I know have a real crush on this particular lavender variety, lavandula x intermedia 'Provence' ( I was raving about this same lavender last summer on my blog!), but I think if you would see it in real life (my photos are far from doing it justice!), you would too! As the growing season progresses, the plants will eventually lose a bit of their fresh green hue and mature into more of a grey green colour, a beautiful complement to the lavender colour of their exquisitely-scented flower spires which will no doubt have a zillion bees glued to them -- altogether, a lovely spectacle to look forward to!...
I was definitely hoping to be more ahead with some of my rose-hippy projects at this point in May and probably would have been had I not dawdled quite as much at the lake in my garden... But seriously, what's the point of having a garden if one can't find time to dawdle in it, especially in May when all is so fresh and the air filled with the luscious melding of scents from lilac, rose, and mock orange bushes, so much more unforgettable on a balmy May day than any fragrance exuding from a posh perfume bottle?!... Thanks so much for popping by for a little visit of my May garden at the lake, and I do hope you have managed to enjoy some perfect moments in a May garden in the last few weeks!...
