Arianell is amazed at the number of blackcurrant berries on the bushes this year…It is early yet – they won’t be ripe yet for a few weeks, but there are loads and loads of them! She has dreams of jam, jelly and cordials.
Floradora went outside one morning to discover that the municipal workers had installed a little fence around each of our two Cornus Starlight dogwood trees – thanks, Oak Bay! It should forestall the deer from eating the bark, and also from rubbing their antlers on it in the fall…