The Woodland Garden (Sunday 15th June 2025)

I spent an hour or two in the garden working with my gardening neighbour, including using some of the chippings I'd purchased on Friday (see Extra).

The St John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum) beside the patio area has now begun to flower.

According to Wikipedia, "The common name St John's Wort comes from the fact that its flowers and buds were commonly harvested at the time of the Midsummer festival, which was later Christianized as St John's Feast Day on 24 June. It was believed that harvesting the flower at this time made its healing and magical powers more potent. The herb would be hung on house and stall doors on St John's Feast Day to ward off evil spirits and to safeguard against harm and sickness to people and livestock. In other traditions it was burned in bonfires for the protection of crops along with other herbs believed to be magical. Because of its supposed potency in warding off spirits, the plant was also known as fuga daemonum (loosely "demon-flight")."

Sharper in Large.

With thanks to ApolloFly for hosting WildFlower Week this month.

L.
Monday 16.6.2025 (1231 hr)

Blip #4282 (#4032 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #000
Blips/Extras In 2025 #079/265 + 066/100 Extras
Day #5560 (1475 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day #3420 (#3260 + 160 in archived blips)

Old Forge series
Woodland Garden
Flora series

Woodland Garden (June 2025) (Flickr album)(Work in progress)

Taken with Pentax K-50 (Red) and Pentax smc P-DA 18-135mm F3.5-5.6ED AL[IF] DC WR lens

Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Peaches - Search And Destroy (2009)
My pick from today's Iggy Pop Confidential (R6M) is this version of Iggy and the Stooges' 1973 recording of Search and Destroy. Peaches' version was recorded for War Child Presents Heroes Vol. 1.

One year ago:
The Woodland Garden (Acer leaves)