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VIEWS || Capture of the valley at 8am this morning! Due to the cooler start to summer, our Lavender is a little slower to flower this year, however this sunshine will really help speed it along! As such, from next week our Lavender viewing area and relaxing Lavender bench will be back.. plus Tours start on Tuesday 25th June. This weekend we have our Coffee Cart, fresh bunches of Lavender, Lavender foods and Lavender plants all available at the farm shop! Hope you can visit
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Heliotropic. That’s what these ox-eye daisies are because they move their heads towards the sun wherever it is in the sky . So I was keen to go back to the meadow one morning to get a shot with the church in the background and all the faces turned towards me. If we go in the evening they’re all looking to the sunset behind the church. When I was there on an overcast Friday lunchtime, they were turned straight upwards towards the sullen sky. So in yesterday’s glorious blue-skied, sunshine-y weather we pootled down with the dogs, took some snaps and I sneezed and coughed and sniffled my way round as my hay fever kicks in along with the arrival of summer.
I had the absolute pleasure of spending part of today at Elmley Nature Reserve @elmleynature on a workshop with Francesca @kent_cloth. We did some bundle dyeing and screen printing with natural dyes onto linen - all as part of the Kent Cloth project (an Arts Council funded project researching natural plant dyes and flax growing in Kent - exploring a slower and more local approach to making textiles). I love the whole idea of this. It was fun and interesting. And Elmley Nature Reserve, which I have wanted to visit for so long, was just fantastic. I can’t wait to go back to spend a bit more time there. Some people might describe it as bleak. But you know me and slightly bleak places... . I posted some images and videos from the day over on stories.
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Side note: I’m actually growing a small patch of flax for Francesca as part of the project (interesting fact: flax seed grown for fibre/linen is a different variety to that grown for food). I have to admit I left it quite late to sow so it’s not very advanced, plus it’s germinated quite patchily. This might have had something to do with my just-get-it-in-the-ground, broadcast-sow-it (aka fling it around) approach . Although Fran tells me other sites have had a similar thing. Will update if/when it gets more interesting than a few green shoots!
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P.S. Fran is also a textile designer @fableandbase (again, Kent-based), printing her own textiles. Beautiful stuff .
As the summer can’t make up its mind whether it’s coming or going, I’ve found a picture from the warm days of summer last year. Castle Farm, Kent.
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Umm, can someone please tell the British weather that it’s supposed to be summer? This is me keeping patrol ♂️ in the garden from last week when we had a bit of ☀️. But now it’s all completely disappeared and we are having downpour after downpour ☔️. I think we’re getting all the rain now that we never got in the spring. Please send sunshine!
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