With just a few days of rain I suddenly have a burst of colour in the garden with blooms galore and more. I have dedicated a separate page to peonies but one of the other show stoppers right now is the Papaver Orientale (Oriental Poppy). I love the peach coloured blooms and how they radiate […]
? R It is the season for peonies. I was away for a few days with my husband on an MGB run and when returning to my garden I couldn’t believe the number of peonies that were blooming. With the combination of rain and sunshine the blooms came out sooner than I thought. It goes […]
I love to take photos in the early morning light as it catches the blooms in the garden. My double pink peony is now fully in bloom and I am hoping that the rain will hold off for a while so that we can fully appreciate the flowers. The oriental poppies continue to bloom […]
Now as the temperatures warm up, we move into the next stage of flowering in the Findleberry Garden. With looking at all the photos I have taken this past week, I really do have a theme from the blue Jacob’s Ladder to my hardy blue geranium and now my low blue growing campanula. The perennial flax […]
Following on from my flowers in bud, now the alliums are in full bloom which attracts the bees and once again I have a lovely display of blue flax (linum narbonense) with their delicate blue flowers and leaves. The early iris is now coming to an end and my Jacob’s ladder (Polemonium) has just […]
The blooms of the bearded iris are very distinctive. They are named bearded because of the broad petal with a dark patch folding downwards. Flowers are often up to 6″ across. They mainly bloom from mid May to early June and can be grown in light soil with some lime in a sunny position. (NB: they […]
The spring flowers are starting to fade off now (namely the bulbs). I still have colour in the rockery garden area as the alyssum, iberis and creeping phlox continue to bloom and of course the lilacs are still in bloom. In the remaining beds, there is an abundance of lush greenery awaiting for the […]
Thoroughly enjoyed the Easter weekend spending time with family and friends and my guests were really pleased with the pansy containers I gave as Easter gifts and preferred them to chocolates. I was fortunate too to receive a lovely bouquet of freesias which is my favourite flower. Since then I have made headway both in the garden and […]
This past week there has been a significant change in the garden. New shoots are appearing everywhere both in the flower beds and on the various shrubs and trees. I captured both the lilac and spirea coming into leaf. Around the winter heather the delicate fern like foliage of the painted daisy is appearing (pyrethrum) along with aubretia (rockery […]