Summer Scents And Sounds

Everyday at Norton Conyers presents a feast for the senses now that summer is here. Today was especially enchanting as the garden was awash with with perfume, the first scent to delight you is the shrub lilacs in the round garden, followed by the sherbet like fragrance of the irises. The roses then start to intrude upon your consciousness as the day warms up, not to mention all the other flowers who may not dominate the air but will reward you if you stoop and bring yourself to their level, hours could be lost pursuing this pastime!

Whilst going about your tasks there is always a background of sound to accompany you, usually there will be the hum of mowing or strimming drifting in from other parts of the estate with the chirping and full blown songs of the garden birds always a delightful refrain, add to that, as we experienced today, the overpowering drone of the bees swarming into the apple trees and then away to their summer home in the courtyard, and you have a positive symphony of sound. Summer is definitely here.

"The splendour of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm"
Therese of Lisieux

Rosa 'Summer Sun'