Wild strawberries (Fragaria vesca) are now ripening along banks and walls. They may be small but they make up with the intense strawberry flavour once fully ripe.
It's strange but for some reason they are never stripped out by Blackbirds. Yet if garden Strawberries are left unprotected, Blackies will scoff the lot.
Wild Strawberries (Fragaria vesca)
Wild strawberries were widely cultivated in Europe until the larger fruited forms which came from America took over as dessert fruits. If you have a little space, and you don't need much. Make a little plot in the garden for a few Wild Strawberry plants. These in the photo are actually growing in a rock wall and do very well in there.
Suffolk Herbs are stockist for Wild Strawberry seeds. Once you have them they will spread like wildfire with their thin runners they throw out, though they are not difficult to control.
When it comes to intensity, once again an area of the garden is awash in scent. At the top of the garden by the shed, the Philadelphus coronaria or Mock Orange is in full flower.
Philadelphus coronaria flowering.
As we walk through the gate to this area of the garden, the sharp fruitiness hits us. The shrub has got massive and peeks over the top of the roof of the shed.
A flower of more delicate scent is the rose Madame Alfred Carrier. It's one of the reliable and hardy Noisette climbers. The flowers repeat all Summer long. We have it growing over the outhouse roof where we can catch the delightful perfume as we go into the house from the garden.
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