garden shots

I'm posting this phot a bit late as this show of flowers has been over for a couple of weeks. It's my Clematis Montana and it brightened the view out of my kitchen window.

One of the Alium Christophii in my front garden which my friend named the lollipop garden what with the aliums and the valerian.

I don't know what this butterfly is called or even if it's a moth. It seemed to like my lemon balm.

This climbing rose was already in my garden when I moved in and it smells heavenly. I followed the advice on gardeners world and bent the shoots horizontally as it encourages loads of new shoots all fighting for lateral dominance and therefore loads more roses. I wanted the white roses to weave through more with the Potato climber(Solanum) but I think I should have done it earlier as they seem to have minds of their own.

Garden shots

I don't know the name of this flower but it looks like some sort of daisy. It's rising out of a cushion of Euphorbia.








Rhododendron









The first rose of this year - it smells heavenly









One of my salvias - the leaves smell like black currant -gorgeous.








Epimedium - these love shade. The leaves gain and lose red durung the year. I love watching them change.

Clematis montana that has carpeted my fence (will post photo of the whole length of it soon) and orange honeysuckle.

Erythronium - so delicately beautiful. Shade loving. They don't last long but they are worth it.

And finally yippee the peonia that my Mum gave me from her garden that I moved to our flat and then to this house but this is the first year it's flowered here. All previous years the buds were black and dropped off. Hoorah! My five year old daughter took this photo.

Seedlings and writing

The Clematis montana is full of pale pink blooms transforming my view when I'm washing up.







Here are my seedlings in my lean-to. My tomato plants look a bit pale - not sure what can be wrong with them. Any ideas?? Too tired to google now.







My writing corner in our bedroom is now set up and fully functional and looks and is brilliant. Now I just have to write - I have run out of excuses -that must be why I spent the entire evening on the phone to sister and friend. A couple of my poems should be coming up soon on the net- will keep you posted. Goodnight.

more garden pics

I had nearly given up on this rhododendron. It had no flowers last year but this year has four. The buds look an intense pink then open out into the most delicate white/pale pink gossamer-looking flowers. When I left my job I was told to take any of the plants as the site was getting closed down (remember Tina you helped me with the plants?) and this is one of the plants I took.



We moved the plum tree from its too small pot and put it in the ground. It survived and has blossom. Hopefully there won't be a frost like last year to destroy them before they have the change to turn into fruit.

Update on Clematis montana outside my kitchen window. The once looking dead twigs are covered in leaves and buds.

Been away for a few days- lovely to come back to the garden and to hear lots of drunk bees buzzing around. Hope you all had a good Easter.