Lavender Garden
Wild Blackberries
Hitty Freddie and Constance had a day out today – and a feast for the senses! First we collected wild blackberries (tiny, tasty, and ripe in July)…
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Lavender Avenue
…then we visited a lavender farm…
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drying
…where the first harvest was already collected…
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concentric
…and the second about to be!
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Sweet perfume
Clara June and Constance were intoxicated by the warmth of the afternoon; the sight of acres and acres of lavender and green; sound of buzzing bees; and the spicy sweet perfume!
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domestic
We only have a few lavender plants at home…
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sweet
…but even so, it’s hot work for small wooden hands to harvest our crop. They are thinking they might need to acquire some small lavender sickles!
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Quimper Hittys 
I have tried many times to grow lavender but it always dies on me! I think I give it too rich soil and, of course, it is mostly wet here – not a mediterranean climate at all.
Oh dear that sounds frustrating…the southern tip of Vancouver Island is pretty dry in summer, though soggy for the other 8 months or so. We have lavender three plants in the garden and two of them seem especially happy, the third one may have wet feet…
I’m so glad that the two sweet Hittys, Constance and Freddy, can go about together, viewing this and that and enjoying one another’s company. It looks like a bit of ice cream was a sweet treat at some point too!
It was nice to visit with Freddy (and her human!) and indeed, we all ate some very refreshing ice cream on one of the hottest days of the year!
wow what a marvelous adventure. all that lavender, i have swooned. Thank you for sharing.
It was very swoony at the lavender farm – rows and rows of sensory overload! So beautiful!
So lovely, Kjerstin. We all need lavender in our lives.
Janet
It was so interesting to see the farm, and all the lavender fields and great big bunches drying in the barn! We do need lavender in our lives!
I must really order some dried lavender online. All my lavender bags are so old they are virtually scentless, and the sight of all that beautiful purple bloom makes me pine for the good clean smell again.
Standing under the barn eaves with hundreds of drying lavender bunches was truly heavenly, and then down on the ground, among the rows of silvery lavender clumps in the heat, with the bees in frantic joy, a completely sensational experience! I hope I will remember that day when I smell fresh lavender from now on!
It sounds like a sensory assault, in the best possible way!
How wonderful all that fragrant lavender!!!
It was wonderful! Such a lot of deliciousness!