Lavender....

It's lavender season. It's one of my favourite plants. The colour.... The perfume.... The way every part of the plant is imbued with its intoxicating scent. In spite of being a plant that is used to the hot, dry, summers of the South of France, it still thrives under the grey and damp skies of Manchester. It survives through the bitterest winters. It works on so many levels. And it's great at attracting bees, all of which vanished as I took out the iPad...