Wednesday 15 April 2015

April flowers

We had a short sharp introduction to winter this week as a cold front blew across the country. It's not really acceptable, snow forming on the hills and sleety showers in the city - what is this, June? and as I write this gale force southerlies are still slamming the house. So, summer has gone and at this stage it feels like we skipped autumn and went straight into winter! Luckily there is still plenty of colour in the flower garden and there are even some surprises this month, including some confused anemones which are sending up flower buds!

Above, clockwise from top left: salvia, Cecille Brunner rose, astrantia, dahlia, pink-tinted succulent, sedum flower, fairy mushrooms, camellia Elfin Rose (another surprise. I bought this in a bargain bin last spring and it had a couple of flowers then, so I wasn't expecting that it would flower so early in the season), cosmos, cosmos and scabiosa backlit by the sun (a quintessentially autumn combination for me), calibrachoa, penstemon Blackbird.

How is your garden this month? Hope you're having good weather and good flowers. Don't forget to check out Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for more flowers from all around the globe!

4 comments:

  1. Lovely selections. Cecile Brunner is blooming at my place, too. The dahlia at upper right looks similar to what my mother used to grow. Happy Bloom Day.

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    1. Thanks Jean, funny to think we have the same bloom in gardens on different sides of the globe :)

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  2. So many gorgeous flowers it would be impossible to pick a favourite! Oh how I love this time of year! Katie x

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    1. Thanks Katie! Any time of year is good as long as there is flowers in it :)

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