Just after the summer solstice our annual ‘Charity Evening Garden Visit’ was held at Ruth & Mike Couzens’s grade II listed home, Crosby Lodge at Crosby-on-Eden.
The June weather was truly glorious - a ‘flaming’ June evening.
The
expression “Flaming June” is beloved by headline writers,
implying that the month traditionally brings tropical warmth.
However, the phrase is not directly connected with the weather.
Flaming June is the title of Sir Frederic Leighton's 1895 painting of a woman in an orange dress sleeping under a canopy in the summer heat.
Leighton was thoroughly ambiguous: the woman has flame-red hair, and it is unclear whether June is her name, or if the scene takes place during June, or whether she is the personification of the month.
The Guardian
