The bee?

A blip from the garden, as a lot of the day was spent in preparation for our dinner guests, Mo and Red.

Our lovely spring flowering Choisya ternata is really going for it just now. They are known to throw out a feqw flowers in the autumn, normally with a lot less fragrance than the vernal (thanks Red) flowering, but these fill the garden when they get the slightest bit of warmth.

Also pictured are the last few Conference pears just waiting to be picked for pickling, poaching, or just eating as they are.

Story about Choisya ternata. I have always said choy-see-yah. All my lecturers at college said the same. Everybody I have ever spoken to about this shrub (Mexican orange blossom) has said choy-see-yah! Talking to an elderly, scholarly gentleman some time ago about gardens, he told me that his favourite garden shrub was shwa-zee-yah. ! (Sound of penny dropping) Of course it is a French name latin-ised in the same way as Fuchs-ia or Dahl-ia.

You learn some thing new every day.

I'm not sure if that is a bee on the Choisya flower. It might bee a late hover-fly.