Topic: My alpine strawbs are....

[Mrs Ava]

...covered in flowers, and the garden is full of bees!  My currant bushes also seem to be covered in baby fruitees and flowers, infact, I predict I am going to have oooooooooooooodles of fruit this year.  Now to plan how to keep the birds away!

[aquilegia]

My two-year-old strawbs also have loads of flowers. The one-year-olds have yet to develop any. The other one-year-olds (a different variety from mum) are flowerless too.

I cannot wait to taste the berries - we only got a couple of portions last year so I'm hoping for more...

I use small holed netting to keep the birds off. I'm sure fleece would work too.

[Moggle]

Hurrah for you EJ and Aqui!  :D
My Cambridge Favourite Strawbs have loads of flowers too, and the Florence are looking like doing the same.

[Wicker]

No sign of flowers here in the north yet - at least not mine.  Plants are filling out nicely thu, I leave them in the ground over winter and It always amazes me how they recover.  Here's hopeing for a good crop.