May 2018 It has been a month of new adventures plus meeting new and old friends. Meanwhile the garden is flourishing with continued sunshine. I have never seen it look so lush and vibrant. As the rockery garden fades and the early spring flowers subside there is always a slight lull before the next wave of […]
As we reach the end of May the garden is fully flourishing and with the weather cooling off towards the end of the month there has been another spurt of growth. I was only away for a few days but I came back to all the peonies in bloom, at least 3 or 4 varieties […]
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 […]
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 […]
When I first started this post, the peonies were in full bloom and my double pink variety was putting on a great show. Many a comment has been made by visitors from the park cycling or walking in our neighborhood. Sadly as I write today, since the wind and rain, they certainly do not look […]