Sisyphus

Organic gardening is always a bit like Sisyphus - a lot of it is done in vain and you start from the beginning again. Especially depressing this year was the fact that some animal destroyed at least half of the seeds and from the remaining plants some other (or the same??) animal ate away the tiny first leaves of the new plants.

Some things however actually DID what they were supposed to so I have to document this for the future (that I only remember the good parts of gardening in a few years). The peas for example.

May bug

Yeah I know, it's June already - time flies as usual. The cockchafer has been found in May though and was saved from drowning. I tried to clean it a bit before taking the picture but some of the pollen which has accumulated in the water stayed on it.

Intersting hairstyle!

 This was attached to the fly-screen last night. It's the caterpillar of the garden tiger moth and apparently it has survived from last year and is supposed to pupate soon. What a cool thing!

Violets are not always blue

They can be white ;)

 

When the Japanese Cherry (Prunus serrulata) is losing it's flowers it almost looks like snow. 

 Forget-me-not in two varieties:

Vinca (gosh I never learned all these flower names in Enlish):

Bellis perennis (that sounds quite sophisticated for the flower we just call "goose flower" in German) or is that just an English daisy or maybe a lawn daisy ...

The appletree started out promosing as well. We are still eating apples from last fall and lots of bottles of juice are left as well so lets see if we have two "apple years" after another.

And last but not least pulmonaria or lungworts: