Photo essay: recently flowering
Sharing some photos of some pretty that has recently been flowering in my garden. Keeping it simple with just photos! So what’s been flowering in your garden?
Photo Essay
Crocus tommasinianus ‘Whitewell Purple’ and Iris ‘Cantab’
Now we’ve had some proper Spring weather, with warmer temperatures and sunny days, the colour is taking off. First up is my favourite crocus, C. tommasinianus ‘Whitewell Purple’. In the sun it shimmers, and attracts the bees who feast on …
Happy new year
Spectacular sunset from our front garden As you can see, we experienced a pretty amazing sunset on the evening of 29th December. Going by the ‘red sky at night’ maxim, we were hoping for a good day the next day. …
Postcards from our holiday: Cotswolds June 2019
June saw my BFF from Melbourne, Kerri, over in the UK with her sister Sharon. They hired a cottage in Broadway, the Cotswolds for three weeks, and we joined them for part of that time. In between ME resting, and …
Purple reign
Purple. It’s my favourite colour. And I love it’s different shades, from lilac to aubergine, blue-purple, pink purple and deep purple. Here are some of the many purples reigning in my garden from Spring to early Summer. Allium hollandicum ‘Purple …
Photo essay: Solva Harbour, Pembrokeshire, April 2019
The head of the harbour at Solva We recently spent about 9 days down in Solva, Pembrokeshire. Solva is only a few miles away from St David’s and it’s a quiet and sweet little village. We stayed at Caswell House, …
Photo Essay: Llanthony Priory, 8th April 2019
Our recent holiday was in Pembrokeshire, but on the way there we stopped at one of my favourite places, Llanthony Priory (Welsh: Priordy Llanddewi Nant Hodni), in the Black Mountains, between Hay-on-Wye and Abergavenny. It was a day with really …
Photo essay: a little bit of early summer at Sheffield Botanical Gardens
In the now 5 years I’ve lived in Sheffield, somehow I’ve managed to not visit the Sheffield Botanical Gardens in early summer before. Quite remiss of me, and clearly, quite a lot I’ve been missing. Always, my favourite part of …
Evening light
The last few evenings have been quite beautiful here in Sheffield; summer at the edge of the Peak District. I’ve found the way the evening sun lit up some of my plants to have been quite breathtaking. I’m not sure …
Garden visit: Anglesey Abbey in mid-Spring
Winter garden In the past I’ve only ever visited Anglesey Abbey in winter. In my opinion, it has the best winter garden I’ve ever seen; I’ve blogged about this previously. On a trip to Cambridge last weekend to visit Kevin’s …